Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists

Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) is a political party based in the Darjeeling District

Darjeeling district

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of the India

India

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n state of West Bengal

West Bengal

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. CPRM was formed in 1996 by Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

dissidents (a major group of the local CPI(M) leadership in Darjeeling) like former State Minister and Rajya Sabha MP Tamang Dawa Lama, Lok Sabha MP R.B. Rai and others, who were dissatisfied with the peace settlement the Left-Front government signed with the Gorkha National Liberation Front

Gorkha National Liberation Front

Gorkha National Liberation Front is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India...

(GNLF). CRPM participates in the Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists

Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists

Confederation of Indian Communist and Democratic Socialists ' is a confederation of pro-Congress communist and Social Democratic parties in India. These parties are against major Leftist parties of India like Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India.The constituent parties of CICDS...

. The youth organization of CPRM is called Democratic Revolutionary Youth Federation

Democratic Revolutionary Youth Federation

The Democratic Revolutionary Youth Federation is the youth wing of Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists in India....

(DRYF).

CPRM struggles for a separate Gorkhaland

Gorkhaland

Gorkhaland is the name of the proposed state in India demanded by the Nepali/Gorkhali-speaking Nepali/Gorkha ethnic group in Darjeeling and the Dooars in north West Bengal....

state to be formed within India. It contested the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council

Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council

Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council , also once known for a short period of time as Darjeeling Gorkha Autonomous Hill Council , is a semi-autonomous body that looks after the administration of the Darjeeling District in the state of West Bengal, India...

election in 1999 but won no seat. Before 1999, one CPRM member, Padam Lama, was a member of the DGHC. Ahead of the 1999 DGHC elections, CPRM was part of the United Front, an alliance consisting of CPRM, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League

Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League

Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. The party was founded in 1943 by Damber Singh Gurung. The current president is Bharati Tamang, widow of late Madan Tamang, a former president of ABGL...

(ABGL), Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

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, Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti

Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti

Bharatiya Gorkha Janashakti is a political party in the Darjeeling District of the Indian state of West Bengal. BGJS was launched in 1998, anticipating the 1999 Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections...

, Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India

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, All India Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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, Bharatiya Nepali Bir Gorkha and Sikkim Rashtriya Mukti Morcha.

Since the failure of the United Front, CPRM formed the People's Democratic Front, as a united opposition to GNLF in the Darjeeling hills, together with Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, Indian National Congress, Gorkha National Liberation Front (C.K. Pradhan)

Gorkha National Liberation Front (C.K. Pradhan)

Gorkha National Liberation Front or GNLF is a splinter group of Gorkha National Liberation Front in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India. GNLF was formed in 2002 after the murder of GNLF leader C.K. Pradhan. Pradhan's widow Sheila Pradhan claimed that he was killed by GNLF since he was about...

and Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

.

CPRM is currently part of the Democratic Front, an alliance of the CPRM, ABGL, BJP and other parties. CPRM had earlier supported the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha

Gorkha Janmukti Morcha is a registered political party which campaigns for the creation of a separate state within India, out of districts in the north of West Bengal...

(GJM), but when GJM agreed to the setting up of an Interim Setup in Darjeeling instead of a full-fledged state of Gorkhaland

Gorkhaland

Gorkhaland is the name of the proposed state in India demanded by the Nepali/Gorkhali-speaking Nepali/Gorkha ethnic group in Darjeeling and the Dooars in north West Bengal....

, CPRM became opposed to it.

After unsuccessfully trying to put up consensus candidates in the three constituencies of Darjeeling with other parties, CPRM decided not to filed any candidates of its own after the other parties - GJM and ABGL - decided to fight the elections independently.

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