Marxist Communist Party of India, MCPI was a political party

Political party

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 in India

India

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. It emerged as a splinter-group of 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...

. The party general secretary was Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri (former All India Kisan Sabha

All India Kisan Sabha

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 general secretary).

MCPI was active in Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

, Bihar, Punjab, West Bengal

West Bengal

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, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

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, etc.

The principal mass organizations of the party were:

• All India Centre of Trade Unions
  All India Centre of Trade Unions
  The All India Centre of Trade Unions is a trade union centre in India. It is the labour wing of the Marxist Communist Party of India . Previously it was the trade union wing of the main predecessor of MCPI, the Marxist Communist Party of India....
  
   (AICTU)
• All India Federation of Democratic Youth
  All India Federation of Democratic Youth
  All India Federation of Democratic Youth is the youth wing of Marxist Communist Party of India....
  
   (AIFDY)
• All India Federation of Democratic Women
  All India Federation of Democratic Women
  All India Federation of Democratic Women is a women's organisation in India, being the women's wing of the Marxist Communist Party of India . P. Krishnammal, a Kerala State Committee member of MCPI, is the general secretary of AIFDW....
  
   (AIFDW)

Ahead of the 2004 Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha

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 elections MCPI participated in the front initiated by Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag

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 and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Kanu Sanyal)

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.

In 2005 MCPI merged with other splinter groups to form the Marxist Communist Party of India (United)

Marxist Communist Party of India (United)

Marxist Communist Party of India is a communist party in India, formed in 2005 by the unification of the Marxist Communist Party of India, the Mangat Ram Pasla-led breakaway group from the Communist Party of India in Punjab, the BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi and the Hardan Roy group in...

.

Lok Sabha election results:

2004: 4 candidates from Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...

, results see http://www.eci.gov.in/GE2004/pollupd/parties/MCPI(S)contest.htm#S01

1999: 7 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, in total 120 220 votes

1998: 2 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, in total 24 417 votes

1996: 2 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, in total 33 900 votes

1991: 4 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, 1 from West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

, in total 43 085 votes

1989: 3 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, in total 100 300 votes

State assembly elections:

Andhra Pradesh 1999: 74 candidates, in total 132 601 votes

Bihar 2000: 6 candidates, 8861 votes

Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 2003: 1 candidate, 2 111 votes

Rajasthan 1998: 2 candidates, in total 542 votes

West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

2001: 1 candidate, 2 014 votes