Krishak Banuva Panchayat (Assam Peasant and Labour Party) was a political organisation in
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. It functioned as the open mass front for the
Revolutionary Communist Party of India
The Revolutionary Communist Party of India ( RCPI) is a political party in India. The party was founded as the Communist League by Saumyendranath Tagore in 1934, breaking away from the Communist Party of India (CPI). RCPI led armed uprisings aft ...
in Assam. It was founded on 2 May 1940 at a convention in
Gauhati
Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...
.
[Sen Gupta, Susmita. ]
Radical Politics in Meghalaya: Problems and Prospects
'. Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2009. p. 31
Bishnu Prasad Rabha and Khagen Barbarua were notable leaders of KBP.
References
Defunct political parties in Assam
Political parties established in 1940
1940 establishments in India
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