Lal Nishan Party (Red Flag Party, LNP) was a

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in the

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. It was founded in 1965. The LNP's main work was trade union activism. The trade union of the party was called Sarva Shramik Sangh (SSS). The party publication was called ''Nave Parva''. Earlier, SSS published a

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daily newspaper from

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called ''Shramik Vichar''. During the 1980s, the LNP developed a close cooperation with Kamgar Aghadi. In 1988, a split occurred when a hardline section, critical of the

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, broke away and formed the Lal Nishan Party (Leninvadi). The LNP participated in the

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. In 2017 August, the LNP merged with the

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