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CPI(M) took 5,5% of vote in last legislative election (May 2004) and it has 43 MPs. They support new Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, but without taking part in it.

In West Bengal and Tripura it participates in Left Front. In Kerala the party is part of Left Democratic Front. In Tamil Nadu it is part of the Progressive Democratic Alliance.
In HindiHindi Hindi Spoken India Region South Asia Total speakers 480 million Ranking2 Genetic classification Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Middle Indo-Aryan Hindi Official status Official language India Regulated by- Language codes ISO 639-1hi ISO 639-2h CPI(M) is often called MaKaPa (Marksvadi Kamyunist Party).

The current general secretary of CPI(M) is Harkishan Surjit Singh. The CPI(M) MP Somnath Chatterjee is the speaker of the Lok SabhaThe Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower House of India's parliament. Its maximum size as outlined in the constitution is 552 members made up of 530 members elected by the states in proportion to their voting population, 20 members by the Union Te (2004). The 17th party congress of CPI(M), held in HyderabadThere are several places named Hyderbd including, For the pre-1956 Indian state, see Hyderabad state For the city in Andhra Pradesh, India, see Hyderabad, India For the city in Sindh, Pakistan, see Hyderabad, Pakistan. March 2002 elected a Central Committee with 79 members. The CC later elected a 17-member Polit Bureau:

• Harkishan Singh SurjeetHarkishan Singh Surjeet is a communist politician from Punjab, India. He is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Born in Bandala, Jullundhur district, Surjeet started his political career in the national liberation movement in
• Jyoti BasuJyoti Basu communist politician from West Bengal, India. Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). Chief Minister of West Bengal 1977- 2000. Born July 8, 1914 in Calcutta. Grew up in a Bengali middle class family. Basu's father was a judg
• E. BalanandanBalanandan communist politician from Kerala, India. Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 1978. Born June 16 1924 in Sakthikulangara, Kollam District. Son of Raman and Eswary. Initiated his political career in the Indian National
• E.K. Nayanar (deceased May 19 2004)
• V.S. Achuthanandan
• Prakash Karat
• Sitaram Yechury
• S. Ramachandran Pillai
• P. Ramachandran
• R. Umanath
• Anil Biswas
• Biman Bose
• Manik Sarkar
• Pinarai Vijayan
• M.K. Pandhe
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
• Kortala Satyanarayana

The principal mass organizations of CPI(M) are:

• Democratic Youth Federation of India
• Students Federation of India
• Centre of Indian Trade Unions
• All India Kisan Sabha (peasants' organization)
• All India Agricultural Workers Union
• All India Democratic Women's Association
• Bank Employees Federation of India
• All India Lawyers Union

In Tripura, the Ganamukti Parishad is a major mass organization.

From the Centre, two weekly newspapers are published, People's Democracy (English) and Lok Lehar (Hindi). On state level there are a variety of vernacular publications, including five daily newspaper;

• Ganashakti ( West Bengal, Bengali)
• Deshabhimani ( Kerala), Malayalam)
• Daily Desher Katha ( Tripura, Bengali)
• Theekathir ( Tamil Nadu, Tamil)
• Prajashakti ( Andhra Pradesh, Telugu)

A large number of parties have been formed from splits of the CPI(M), such as Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Marxist Communist Party of India, Marxist Coordination Committee in Jharkhand, Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy and Communist Marxist Party in Kerala, Party of Democratic Socialism in West Bengal, Janganotantrik Morcha in Tripura, the Ram Pasla group in Punjab, Orissa Communist Party in Orissa, etc.