Marxist Communist Party of India (United) is a

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, formed in 2005 by the unification of the

Marxist Communist Party of India Marxist Communist Party of India, MCPI was a political party in India that formed in 1983 under the leadership of comrade Mohan Punamia. It emerged as a splinter group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) stuck to the original 1964 programme. T ...

, the

Mangat Ram Pasla Mangat Ram Pasla is an Indian politician. He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), but was expelled from the party in December 2001. He had previously been the Secretary of the Punjab State Committee of the ...

-led breakaway group from the CPI(M) in

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

- Communist Party Marxist (Punjab), the BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi (a

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

-based splintergroup of the CPI(M), which had been based in the CITU) and the Hardan Roy group in

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Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (10 April 1917 – 27 May 2013) was an Indian politician. He was the oldest surviving member of the founding Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Political activist Prior to the Partition of India ...

was the general secretary of the party. On 26 November 2005, a meeting was held which appointed a 12-member Kerala State Committee with V.B. Cherian as its secretary. The

state units of MCPI and Communist Party Marxist (Punjab) formally merged in December 2005 and a 13-member Punjab State Committee was appointed. Kuldip Singh is the secretary of the Punjab State Committee. In September 2006, the unification congress of MCPI(U) was held in

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. 345 delegates from Punjab, West Bengal,

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and Kerala participated. The rally held ahead of the congress, which gathered around 5000 demonstrators, was addressed by B.N. Reddy, the chief commander of the Telangana armed struggle. The congress elected a control commission consisting of M.D. Gouse, N. Sudershan and Kirpal Singh Hans.http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060921/cth1.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories

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