Party Name: | Marxist Communist Party of India |
Abbreviation: | MCPI |
Founder: | Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri Mohan Punamia |
General Secretary: | Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri |
Foundation: | 1983 |
Merged: | Marxist Communist Party of India (United) |
Dissolution: | 2005 |
Ideology: | Communism Marxism-Leninism |
Position: | Left-wing |
Youth: | All India Federation of Democratic Youth |
Students: | All India Federation of Democratic Students |
Women: | All India Federation of Democratic Women |
Labour: |
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Peasants: | All India Kisan Federation |
Marxist Communist Party of India, MCPI was a political party in India that formed in 1983 under the leadership of Mohan Punamia. It emerged as a splinter group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) stuck to the original 1964 programme. The party general secretary was Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (former All India Kisan Sabha general secretary).
MCPI was active in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, etc.
In 2005 by the unification of the Marxist Communist Party of India, the Mangat Ram Pasla-led breakaway group from the CPI(M) in Punjab – Communist Party Marxist (Punjab), the BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi (a Kerala-based splinter group of the CPI(M), which had been based in the CITU) and the Hardan Roy group in West Bengal and formed Marxist Communist Party of India (United).[1]
Ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections MCPI participated in the front initiated by Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).
In 2005 MCPI merged with other splinter groups to form the Marxist Communist Party of India (United).
Lok Sabha election results:[2]