Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation is a Communist political party in India.

Origin

In 1973, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) split into two different parties. Vinod Mishra was in one of those parties but in 1974 he left it to co-create a new party with Subrata Dutta which was Communist but didn’t like Lin Biao, the Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist Liberation.

History

In 1975, Subrata Dutta was killed and Vinod Mishra took over the party. In 1976, Mishra decided that it would support violent revolution but would also use elections and democracy to oppose the Indian National Congress.

In the 1980s, they created many different political parties to be a front for them. In the 1990s, they started running in elections themselves.

Present Day

It is now led by Dipankar Bhattacharya.