Ashim Chatterjee is an India

India

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n politician and a former Naxalite

Naxalite

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 leader. He was a student leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)

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 (CPI(ML)) in Calcutta. Chatterjee broke ranks with Charu Majumdar

Charu Majumdar

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 in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement in the Debra-Gopiballavbur area in West Bengal

West Bengal

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 and due to the opposition of CPI(ML) towards the liberation struggle of Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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. He was imprisoned during 1972-78. Chatterjee formed the Bengal-Bihar-Orissa Border Regional Committee, CPI(ML) as a separate faction. His group joined the CPI(ML) of Satayanarayan Singh. Later Chatterjee formed the Communist Revolutionary League of India

Communist Revolutionary League of India

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He unsuccessfully contested West Bengal legislative assembly (Bidhan Sabha) elections twice - first as a Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 (CPI(M)) supported Independent and in 2006, as a Trinamul Congress supported candidate. He is popularly called as comrade Kaka.