Communist Party of Bharat is a Naxalite splinter group of

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. His ...

. This party has a presence in

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

. The party was behind the agitation in

Singur Singur is a census town in Singur CD Block in Chandannagore subdivision of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Location Singur is located at . It has an average elevation of 14 metres (45 ft), and is si ...

and

Nandigram Nandigram is a census town in the Nandigram I Community Development Block of the Haldia subdivision in the Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. In 2007, the West Bengal government allowed the Salim Group to set up a che ...

. The party secretary is Ranjan Chakraborty and Barnali Mukherjee is the other leader working in mass fronts. The Party distanced itself away from the movement that stemmed from the Nandigram and Singur agitation, citing that the movement went further from a popular movement to a business-lobby backed 'false' movement in spite of other Left parties entangling with the movement.
'The CPB distanced itself from the later part of Singur fiasco led by Trinamool Congress from the middle of 2008 which it felt had already detached itself from the interest of the people and was now fully serving the interests of the opposite industrialist lobbies only. Almost all other small left groups in Bengal including the SUCI disagreed with the Party at this point and continued to support TMC right up to the Assembly election 2011.''

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