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100th year of CPI formation Day
December 28 , 2024
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- The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India.
- The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur on 26 December 1925.
- CPI was heavily involved in resistance to British colonisation, the fight against the caste system and for land reform.
- Malayapuram Singaravelu from madras became one of the founding fathers of the Communist Party of India.
- He chaired its inaugural convention in Kanpur.
- The Communist Party of India (Marxist) which split from CPI in 1964.
- It considers 17 October 1920 as the founding day of Communist Party of India.
- On this day, M. N. Roy, Evelyn Trent-Roy, Abani Mukherji, Rosa Fitingov, Mohd. Ali, Mohamad Shafiq, and M. P. T. Acharya met in Tashkent, the Capital of Uzbekistan, to form the communist movement in India.
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