Communist Party of India (Marxist)

…the CPI and form the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). The split weakened the CPI considerably at the national level. The CPI(M) surpassed the CPI’s seat total in the Lok Sabha in 1971 and consistently won two or more times as many seats as the CPI in subsequent…

In 1977, however, the Communist Party of India (Marxist; CPI-M) won a majority of seats in the state legislative elections and became the ruling party. The CPI-M remained in power as the world’s longest-serving democratically elected communist government until it was voted out of office in 2011. The winner…

…was a cofounder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M]).

…longtime senior official in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). He served 10 terms in the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament) between 1971 and 2009, the last of which (2004–09) was as its speaker.