CPI (M) candidates

Communist Party of India (Marxist) contested 12 seats of Madhya Pradesh State Assembly elections to be held on November 27. The seating MLA Ramlakhan Sharma contest in Simria constituency.
Candidates:
Ramlakhan Sharma (Simria)
Murarilal Dhakad (Sabalgarh)
Ashok Thivari (Jawra)
Premnaraya Mahore (Gohad)
Ramvilas Goswami (Gwalior)
Ramkalesh Saketh (Rampur Bagelan)
Sunil Sharma (Sirmour)
Ramlal Gupta (Simgrowli)
Buddesan Singh (Jaysingh Nager)
Amarpal Singh (Pusprajgarh)Jaganath Singh Patel (Pathan)
Aru Chawhan (Ambedkar Nager)

Pinarayi Vijayan - Leader of Kerala

Pinarayi Vijayan is the secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala state unit. He entered politics through student union activities. He was the president and sectrary of the Kerala Student's Federation (KSF), for-runner of Student Federation of India (SFI). He also president of the Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF). He joined the Communist Party in 1964.
Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and half years in emergency period. Then he elected the presidentof the Kerala State Co-operative Bank. In 1970, he elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected in 1977, 1991 and 1996. He was acted as Minister for Electric Power and Cooperatives in the E K Nayanar ministry from 1996 and 1998. He was known as a good minister.

After death of Chadayan Govindan of secretary of CPI(M), he elected the state secretary position. In 2002 he elected to the Politburo of CPI (M). After 2005, he entered in the factional group in the political discussions in CPI (M). In the election in 2006, he entered the media attraction. He considered as a villain in the CPI (M). Many of CPI (M) members resigned from the party and criticised Pinarayi's stand. They argued that he acted for the Bourgeoisie.
On 26 May, 2007 Pinarayi suspended with V S Achuthanandan from the Politburo for their public remarks on each other.

Contraversies
SNC Lavalin
Violence in Kannur
His Children's admission (His daughter Veena was an Amrita Institute of Technology student. The institute is managed my Amritanandamayi. His son Vivek is an MBA graduate from B-School in England)
Recovered bulletts from his bags
Threat against K Gopalakrishnan, Editor, Mathrubhumi Daily
Clash between Catholic Church and Party
Involvement of Pharis Aboobacker's money controversy
Called Paul Chittilapally as wretched creature

Marxist Communist Party of India (United)

BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi was a political group in Kerala. The group was a splinder goroup of Communist Patry of India (Marxist) Kerala state committee led by V B Cheriyan. He was leader of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and CPI (M). But he was expelled from the party. When he was led a movement to clear the party. The group was a people's forum. It was not cadre political party. Although they contested elections in 2004.

BTR (B T Ranadive), EMS (E. M. S. Namboodiripad) and AKG (A.K. Gopalan) are the memoires of their party. In 2005 the group merged into the Marxist Communist Party of India (United).

CPI (M) Publications

Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Publicatons
Theoretical organ

• The Marxist (English)
• Marksbadi Path (Bengali)
• Chinta (Malayalam)
• Marxist (Telugu)

Weekly newspaper of Central committee

• People's Democracy (English)
• Lok Lehar (Hindi)

Daily Newspapers

• Daily Desher Katha (Tripura, Bengali)
• Desabhimani (Kerala, Malayalam)
• Ganashakti (West Bengal, Bengali)
• Prajashakti (Andhra Pradesh, Telugu)
• Theekathir (Tamil Nadu, Tamil)

Weeklies

• Abshar (West Bengal, Urdu)
• Deshabhimani Vaarika (Kerala, Malayalam)
• Swadhintha (West Bengal, Hindi)
• Desh Hiteshi (Bengali)
• Janashakthi (Karnataka, Kannada)
• Jeevan Marg (Maharashtra, Marathi)
• Samyabadi (Orissa, Oriya)
• Ganashakti (Assamese, Assam)

Fortnightlies

• Lok Jatan (Madhya Pradesh, Hindi)
• Lok Samvad (Uttar Pradesh, Hindi)
• Sarfarosh Chintan (Gujarat, Gujarati)

Monthlies

• Shabtaab (Urdu)
• Yeh Naya Raste (Jammu & Kashmir, Urdu)
• Lok Lahar (Punjabi)
• Nandan (Bengali)
• Marxist (Tamil language)

Publishing Houses

• Leftword Publication
• CPI(M) Publication
• National Book Agency (West Bengal)
• Chinta Publication (Kerala)
• Prajasakti Book House (Andhra Pradesh)
• Deshabhimani Book House (Kerala)
• Natun Sahitya Parishad (Assam)

S.F.I. Kerala state conference

The 29 th Kerala state conference of the Students Federation of India (SFI) will be held Thiruvananthapuam from March 6 to 9. The conference will begin with a student’s rally and public meeting on March 6. The public meeting to be inaugurated by Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan. The delegate session will begin on March 7.

Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the series of seminars. 15 seminars will be held in different parts of Thiruvananthapuram district up to March 3. Cultural programmes and competitions have also been organized as part of the conference.

CPI (M) Thrissur

Baby John elected as district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kollam District. The conference also elected 43 member district committee and 46 member delegates for the state conference to be held in Kottayam at February 11.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Thrissur district committee members

CPI (M) Thrissur district committee members:

Baby John, N A Mamakutty, K Pathmanabhan, C A Paulose, P R Rajan, A Pathmabhan, Ambadi Venu, M M Varghese, A C Moideen, Babu M Palissery, C K Kumaran, K V Peethambaran, P P Karappan, K F Devees, K K Srinivasan, Murali Perunelli, V P Joseph, P K Devis B D Devasi, K V Jose, C K Chandran, Varghese Kanddamkulathi, K V Abdul Khader, K Radhakrishnan, K P Radhakrishnan, Seviar Chittilapally, K K Ramachandran, K V Nafeeza, T K Vasu, Prof M Muralidharan, T A Ramakrishnan, P R Varghese, K S Muhammed, M Balaji, T V Haridas, K Mani, P M Sreedharan, R Bindu, A S Kutty, N R Balan

CPI (M) Kollam

K Rajagopal elected as district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kollam District. The conference also elected 43 member district committee and 46 member delegates for the state conference to be held in Kottayam at February 11.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kollam district committee members

CPI (M) Kollam district committee members:

K Rajagopal, P Rajendran, J Mersikutty Amma, E Kasim, D Rajappan Nair, S Suneran, B Raghavan, Karingannoor Murali, N S Prasannakumar, B Thulasidhara Kurupppu, N Pathmalochanan, S Jaya Mohan, K Subhagan, K Somaprasad, K Sethumadhavan, M Meerapillai, Susankodi, Ex Ernest, P K Balachandran, M Gangadharakurupppu, K B Ajayakumar, B Ajayakumar, P Ananadam, C Mukkesh, C Jayasankar, P Somanathan, S L Sajikumar, B Babu, P Lalaji Babu, M Sivasankara Pillai, S Vikraman, R Sahadevan, K Thulasidharan, V V Saseendran, G Vikraman, Murali Madandankode, M Josekutty, P R Vasanthan, D Radhakrishnan, George Mathew, K P Kuruppu, K V Rajendran, S Prakasan

CPI (M) Alappuzha

P K Chandrananthan elected as district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Alappuzha District. The conference also elected 44 member district committee and 44 member delegates for the state conference to be held in Kottayam at February 11.

Communist Party of India (Marxist) Alappuzha district committee members

CPI (M) Alappuzha district committee members:

P K Chandrananthan, G Sudhakaran, C K Sadhasivan, C S Sujatha, C B Chandra Babu, G Venugopal, K K Chellappan, R Nazar, M Surendran, K Prasad, K V Devadas, N Ramakrishnan Nair, D Lakshmanan, B Vinod, V G Mohanan, A Raghavan, D Manichan, K K Asokan, M A Aliyar, K Raghavan, D Somanathan, Siji Cheriyan, M H Rasheed, S Bahuleyan, N R Baburaj, K D Maheendran, K R Bageerathan, P P Chitharanjan, P K Soman, H Salam, K H Baburaj, P Aravindashan, T K Devakumar, B Rajendren , G Rajamma, Murali Thazhakara, M M Antony, A M Areef, P Viswambara Panikker, K O Abdul Shookur, A S Babu, M Sathyapalan, A Anandakuttan, P Ganakumar

CPI (M) – BUPC clash again in Nandigram

CPI (M) – BUPC clash

Communist Party of India (Marxist) activists set fire five houses belonging to supporters of the anti-land acquisition Bhoomi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) by at Khodambari village in Nandigram area on Thursday night, police said on Friday.

It is the first issue since the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was deployed in the area about two months ago.

Nandigram Trinamool Congress (TC) MLA Sisir Adhikari said CPI (M) activists had been threatening the BUPC members for the past few days and set afire their houses last night.
Police picket has been posted in the area.