Socialist Unity Centre of India
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The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India, is a communist party
in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh
in 1948.
ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh. The party rejects political ideas such as glasnost
and perestroika
as revisionist, and claims to uphold the original intent of Karl Marx
, Friedrich Engels
, Vladimir Lenin
, Joseph Stalin
, Mao Zedong
, and the thoughts of Ghosh
.
SUCI(C) holds that India is a capitalist country. In line with that analysis, the party works toward a socialist revolution, rather than a people's democratic revolution (like the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
), a national democratic revolution (like the Communist Party of India
) or a new democratic revolution (like the Naxalites).
The 1st SUCIParty Congress was held in Kolkata in 1988. The 2nd party congress was held from 11–17 November 2009 in Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi attended by thousands of participants from 22 states and observers from several foreign countries. The current political line of the party was formulated in the 2nd party congress. The party's name was changed from Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) to Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) [SUCI (C)] in the second party congress.
governments in West Bengal
in 1967–1969 and 1969–1970 together with CPI(M) and others. The party had a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 4th Lok Sabha
from the Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency). The SUCI had presence in the legislative assemblies of Assam
, Bihar and Orissa
at various times. In the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections SUCI launched 56 candidates, 30 of them from West Bengal. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections (2009) SUCI declared 40 candidates from 12 states.
As of 2009, Tarun Mondol representing Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal is the party's sole MP and it has only one MLA in West Bengal that is Joykrishna Halder representing Jaynagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
. and one MLA
in West Bengal.
The stronghold of the party is in the South 24 Parganas
, West Bengal, in areas such as Jaynagar Mazilpur
where it controls certain municipalities.
SUCI(C) is actively involved in the ongoing anti-Special Economic Zone
movements in India. The most notable of these movements that the party is active in are:
The party has formed a political front in West Bengal
with All India Trinamool Congress
to fight the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
on an agreement that the alliance will maintain equidistance from the Indian National Congress
and the Bharatiya Janata Party
.
The party won the Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)
in 2009 elections with a majority of 53676 votes.
principle was introduced as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector by late Subodh Banarjee
, the then central committee member of SUCI and the PWD and Labor Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front Governments in West Bengal
, respectively.
One of the major campaigns of the party in West Bengal has been its agitations against the educational policy of the Left Front
state government. The decision of the Left Front government to remove the English language from primary education sparked a mass movement led by the SUCI for the reinstatement of English.
Below is a chronological list of campaigns organised by the SUCI(C) in West Bengal:
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is the current leader of the party. He was elected as the General Secretary of the party by the central committee on 4 March.
After Shibdas Ghosh's death in 1976, Nihar Mukherjee
a co-founder of SUCI, became the General Secretary. Nihar Mukherjee demised of cardiac arrest on 18 February 2010 at Kolkatta.
The central committee members of the party are:
The incumbent central committee and politburo was elected in the 2nd party congress.
Secretaries of the State Committees of the party are:
Secretaries of the State Organizing Committees are:
The MP of the party is:
The MLA of the party is:
:
The former MP of the party was:
The former MLAs of the party were :
, an English forthnighly published from Kolkata
.
The state committees of the party publishes:
, a SUCI MLA who represented Kultali
constituency for 30 years, was convicted for murder and sentenced to life term by the Calcutta High Court. SUCI denounced the court ruling as a 'conspiracy of CPI(M)'. Supreme Court of India on 27 February 2007 dismissed the appeal filed by Prabodh Purkait against the judgment passed by the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court. In April 2008, an SUCI leader Bidhan Chatterjee committed suicide citing the corruption in SUCI as the reason for his suicide. In a letter sent before his death, he accused that the SUCI leaders were "hobnobbing with real estate promoters and foreign-funded NGOs". However, Sri. Provash Ghosh (General Secretary, SUCI(C)) has countered these allegations.
Communist party
A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...
in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh
Shibdas Ghosh
Shibdas Ghosh was an Indian communist politician. He was the founding general secretary of Socialist Unity Centre of India.Ghosh was born in the Dhaka District of British India, to a lower middle class family...
in 1948.
Ideology
SUCI(C) considers itself as the only genuine communist party in India, and follows a Marxist-LeninistMarxism-Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...
ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh. The party rejects political ideas such as glasnost
Glasnost
Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s...
and perestroika
Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
as revisionist, and claims to uphold the original intent of Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
, Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
, Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
, Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
, Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
, and the thoughts of Ghosh
Shibdas Ghosh
Shibdas Ghosh was an Indian communist politician. He was the founding general secretary of Socialist Unity Centre of India.Ghosh was born in the Dhaka District of British India, to a lower middle class family...
.
SUCI(C) holds that India is a capitalist country. In line with that analysis, the party works toward a socialist revolution, rather than a people's democratic revolution (like the 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...
), a national democratic revolution (like the Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
) or a new democratic revolution (like the Naxalites).
The 1st SUCIParty Congress was held in Kolkata in 1988. The 2nd party congress was held from 11–17 November 2009 in Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi attended by thousands of participants from 22 states and observers from several foreign countries. The current political line of the party was formulated in the 2nd party congress. The party's name was changed from Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) to Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) [SUCI (C)] in the second party congress.
Parliamentary politics
From its inception, SUCI took part in parliamentary elections and was part of the United FrontUnited Front (1967)
The United Front was a political coalition in West Bengal, India, formed shortly after the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. It was conceived on February 25, 1967, through the joining together of the United Left Front and the People's United Left Front, along with other parties...
governments in 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 1967–1969 and 1969–1970 together with CPI(M) and others. The party had a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 4th Lok Sabha
4th Lok Sabha
List of Members of the 4th Lok Sabha, elected February–March 1967. The Lok Sabha is the lower house in the Parliament of India.-Important members:* Speaker:**N...
from the Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency). The SUCI had presence in the legislative assemblies of Assam
Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
, Bihar and Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
at various times. In the 2004 Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...
elections SUCI launched 56 candidates, 30 of them from West Bengal. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections (2009) SUCI declared 40 candidates from 12 states.
As of 2009, Tarun Mondol representing Jaynagar (Lok Sabha constituency) in West Bengal is the party's sole MP and it has only one MLA in West Bengal that is Joykrishna Halder representing Jaynagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Jaynagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Jaynagar is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes from 2011. Prior to that it was an open seat.-Extent:...
. and one MLA
Member of Legislative Assembly
A Member of Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature of a State in the Indian system of government...
in West Bengal.
Current situation
SUCI(C) members live in communes wherein they lead a simple life style. Day-to-day upkeep of the commune and the well being of the children of party members living in the communes are taken care by the shared efforts of party members. Major income of the party is from box collection in the streets and house to house collection; members who are employed hands in their salaries to the party. The party contests elections with the money collected through this transparent fund raising method.The stronghold of the party is in the South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas district
South 24 Parganas district is an important district of West Bengal State with its district headquarters in Alipore. It has the urban fringe of Calcutta on one side and the remote riverine villages in the Sundarbans....
, West Bengal, in areas such as Jaynagar Mazilpur
Jaynagar Mazilpur
Jaynagar Majilpur is a town and a municipality in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Both the places are also identified separately a Jaynagar and Majilpur...
where it controls certain municipalities.
SUCI(C) is actively involved in the ongoing anti-Special Economic Zone
Special Economic Zone
A Special Economic Zone is a geographical region that has economic and other laws that are more free-market-oriented than a country's typical or national laws...
movements in India. The most notable of these movements that the party is active in are:
- The SingurSingurSingur is a census town in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station on the Howrah-Tarakeswar line. It is 2 km ahead of Kamarkundu junction, the crossing point of Howrah-Bardhaman chord and Howrah-Tarakeshwar lines. It is on...
movement against the SEZ for the Tata GroupTata GroupTata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,...
's car factory.
- The NandigramNandigramNandigram is a rural area with two commuunity development blocks in Haldia subdivision of Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located about 70 km south-west of Kolkata, on the south bank of the Haldi River, opposite the industrial city of Haldia...
movement against the SEZ for the Salim GroupSalim GroupThe Salim Group is Indonesia's biggest conglomerate with assets including Indofood Sukses Makmur, the world's largest instant noodle producer, and Bogasari, a large flour-milling operation...
's chemical hub. SUCI(C) is one of the main backers of the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh CommitteeBhumi Uchhed Pratirodh CommitteeBhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee is an organisation in West Bengal, India, formed to oppose the set-up of a Special Economic Zone in the rural area of Nandigram. It formed an important role in resisting land-acquisitions in the following Nandigram violence...
.
- The Moolampally (Cochin, Kerala) land evictees agitation for an appropriate rehabilitation package. The general convener of the Moolampally agitation is Francis Kalathunkal, the local secretary of SUCI(C).
- The party is also actively involved in the agitation of landless in ChengaraChengaraChengara is a small village situated in Pathanamthitta district in Kerala. It is approximately 10 km from the district headquarters. The village is 140 km from Kochi, and just over 100 km from the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram, depending on the route taken.- Geography :Village...
(PathanamthittaPathanamthittaPathanamthitta is a large town and a municipality situated in the central Travancore region in the state of Kerala, south India, spread over an area of 23.50 km2. It is the administrative capital of Pathanamthitta district. The city has a population of 38,000...
, Kerala) called Chengara Samaram in popular media.
- The anti-Posco movement in Orissa.
The party has formed a political front in 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...
with All India Trinamool Congress
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition...
to fight the 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...
on an agreement that the alliance will maintain equidistance from the Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
and the 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...
.
The party won the Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jaynagar is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Joynagar in West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.-Assembly segments:...
in 2009 elections with a majority of 53676 votes.
Campaigns
The GheraoGherao
Gherao, meaning "encirclement," is a word originally from Hindi and is a typically Indian way of protest. Usually, a group of people would surround a politician or a government building until their demands are met, or answers given...
principle was introduced as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector by late Subodh Banarjee
Subodh Banarjee
Subodh Banarjee was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India. He introduced the Gherao principle as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector of India while being the Labour Minister in the 1969 United Front Government in West Bengal.,, He was the PWD...
, the then central committee member of SUCI and the PWD and Labor Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front Governments in 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...
, respectively.
One of the major campaigns of the party in West Bengal has been its agitations against the educational policy of the Left Front
Left Front
The Left Front is an alliance of Indian leftist parties. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election...
state government. The decision of the Left Front government to remove the English language from primary education sparked a mass movement led by the SUCI for the reinstatement of English.
Below is a chronological list of campaigns organised by the SUCI(C) in West Bengal:
- 1953: Tram fare protest movement was organised by the SUCI.
- 1954: In 1954, the SUCI organised the teachers’ movement.
- 1956: Banga bihar sanjukti birodhi andolan.
- 1958: Students’ movement was organised by the party.
- 1959: The SUCI organised food movement.
- 1967: Another food movement was led by the party.
- 1979: The SUCI organised a movement against various decisions taken by the Government of IndiaGovernment of IndiaThe Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
. - 1980: The SUCI organised Bhasha andolan against the Government of West BengalGovernment of West BengalThe Government of West Bengal also known as the State Government of West Bengal, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of West Bengal and its 19 districts...
which continues till now. - 1983: A movement was led by the party against bus fare hike.
- 1988: First Party Congress in Kolkata (24–29 March)
- 1990: Another movement was organised by the SUCI against the Government of West Bengal for bus fare hike and a Bangla bandhBandhBandh , originally a Hindi word meaning 'closed', is a form of protest used by political activists in some countries like India and Nepal. During a Bandh, a political party or a community declares a general strike....
in September to protest against the death of Madhai Halder, a party supporter killed in police firing at the Esplanade on 31 August 1990. This was the first bandh. - 1991: A protest was led by the organisation against electricity price hike.
- 1991: The SUCI organised a movement against the state education policy.
- 1998: Bangla bandh on 3 February in order to bring back English at the primary education. This was the second bandh.
- 2000: The SUCI organised a protest movement demanding English as a compulsory subject at primary education.
- 2002: A protest was organised against the decision of the Government of West Bengal to increase hospital fee and the increase in electricity charges by the Calcutta Electric Supply CorporationCalcutta Electric Supply CorporationThe Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation or CESC supplies electricity to area under the Kolkata municipal corporation in the city of Kolkata, India, mainly but also few areas of Howrah, Hooghly, 24 Parganas and 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal, India.-History:On 7 January 1897 Kilburn & Co...
and West Bengal State Electricity BoardWest Bengal State Electricity BoardWest Bengal State Electricity Board was a state owned electricity regulation board which came into being on 01.05.1955 and was operating within the state of West Bengal in India until 31.03.2007...
. This was the third bandh. - 2006-ongoing: The Anti SEZ movements in SingurSingurSingur is a census town in Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Singur railway station is 34 km from Howrah Station on the Howrah-Tarakeswar line. It is 2 km ahead of Kamarkundu junction, the crossing point of Howrah-Bardhaman chord and Howrah-Tarakeshwar lines. It is on...
and NandigramNandigramNandigram is a rural area with two commuunity development blocks in Haldia subdivision of Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located about 70 km south-west of Kolkata, on the south bank of the Haldi River, opposite the industrial city of Haldia...
. - 2008: 21 12 April-hour state-wide shutdown in West Bengal jointly called by the Trinamool Congress and SUCI.
Leadership
Provash GhoshProvash Ghosh
Provash Ghosh is the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Centre of India [SUCI]. He was elected to the position by the central committee of the party on 4 March 2010 following the death of Nihar Mukherjee who was elected to the office by the second party congress of the SUCI in November 2009...
is the current leader of the party. He was elected as the General Secretary of the party by the central committee on 4 March.
After Shibdas Ghosh's death in 1976, Nihar Mukherjee
Nihar Mukherjee
Nihar Mukherjee was the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Centre of India [SUCI]. He is a founder member of the party and became the General Secretary after the death of Shibdas Ghosh in 1976. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Proletarian Era, the official newspaper of the...
a co-founder of SUCI, became the General Secretary. Nihar Mukherjee demised of cardiac arrest on 18 February 2010 at Kolkatta.
The central committee members of the party are:
- Provash GhoshProvash GhoshProvash Ghosh is the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Centre of India [SUCI]. He was elected to the position by the central committee of the party on 4 March 2010 following the death of Nihar Mukherjee who was elected to the office by the second party congress of the SUCI in November 2009...
(General Secretary & Politburo member) - Manik Mukherjee (Politburo member)
- Krishna Chakraborty (Politburo member)
- Ranjit Dhar (Politburo member)
- Asit Bhattacharyya (Politburo member)
- Yakub Pailan
- Debprasad Sarkar
- Kalyan Chowdhury
- C.K Lukose
- K. Radhakrishna
- Gopal Kundu
- Soumen Bose
- Satyawan
- Sankar Saha
The incumbent central committee and politburo was elected in the 2nd party congress.
Secretaries of the State Committees of the party are:
- Andhra PradeshAndhra PradeshAndhra 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...
: Kunche Sridhar - AssamAssamAssam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...
: Kalyan Choudhury - Bihar: Shiv Shankar
- HaryanaHaryanaHaryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
: Satyavan - KarnatakaKarnatakaKarnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
: K. Radhakrishna - KeralaKeralaor Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
: C.K Lukose (Website of SUCI(C) Kerala State Committee) - OrissaOrissaOrissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
: Durjati Das - Uttar PradeshUttar PradeshUttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...
: V.N. Singh - West BengalWest BengalWest 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...
: Soumen Bose
Secretaries of the State Organizing Committees are:
- DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
: Pratap Samal - Madhya PradeshMadhya PradeshMadhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....
: Uma Prasad - Tamil NaduTamil NaduTamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
: Rengasamy - Gujarat: Dwarika Nath Rath
- RajasthanRajasthanRājasthān 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...
: Gurjeshwar Singh - PunjabPunjab (India)Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...
: Aminder Pal Singh (Incharge)
The MP of the party is:
- Dr. Tarun Mandal: Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)Jaynagar is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Joynagar in West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.-Assembly segments:...
, West Bengal
The MLA of the party is:
- Dr. Tarun Kanti Naskar: JoynagarJaynagar MazilpurJaynagar Majilpur is a town and a municipality in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Both the places are also identified separately a Jaynagar and Majilpur...
constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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...
Former Legislators of SUCI(C)
The former ministers of SUCI in West BengalWest 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...
:
- Subodh BanarjeeSubodh BanarjeeSubodh Banarjee was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India. He introduced the Gherao principle as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector of India while being the Labour Minister in the 1969 United Front Government in West Bengal.,, He was the PWD...
: PWD Minister 1967 United FrontUnited Front (1967)The United Front was a political coalition in West Bengal, India, formed shortly after the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. It was conceived on February 25, 1967, through the joining together of the United Left Front and the People's United Left Front, along with other parties...
Government, Labour Minister 1969 United FrontUnited Front (1967)The United Front was a political coalition in West Bengal, India, formed shortly after the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. It was conceived on February 25, 1967, through the joining together of the United Left Front and the People's United Left Front, along with other parties...
Government - Protiva Mukherjee: PWD Minister 1969 United FrontUnited Front (1967)The United Front was a political coalition in West Bengal, India, formed shortly after the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. It was conceived on February 25, 1967, through the joining together of the United Left Front and the People's United Left Front, along with other parties...
Government
The former MP of the party was:
- Chita Rai: Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency)Jaynagar is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Joynagar in West Bengal. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.-Assembly segments:...
, West Bengal
The former MLAs of the party were :
- Subodh BanarjeeSubodh BanarjeeSubodh Banarjee was an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India. He introduced the Gherao principle as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector of India while being the Labour Minister in the 1969 United Front Government in West Bengal.,, He was the PWD...
: KultaliKultaliKultali is a town with a police station in Baruipur subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While the poverty-stricken area is struggling for development, it is beset with crime. Violent clashes mark out the area as politically volatile.-Geography:Kultali is...
, JoynagarJaynagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)Jaynagar is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes from 2011. Prior to that it was an open seat.-Extent:...
constituencies, West BengalWest BengalWest 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...
– First MLA of SUCI - Probodh PurkaitProbodh PurkaitProbodh Purkait is an Indian politician belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India . He represented the Kultali constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for more than thirty years....
: KultaliKultaliKultali is a town with a police station in Baruipur subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While the poverty-stricken area is struggling for development, it is beset with crime. Violent clashes mark out the area as politically volatile.-Geography:Kultali is...
constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Renupada Halder: MathurapurMathurapurMathurapur I is an administrative division in Diamond Harbour subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Mathurapur police station serves this block...
(SC) constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Rabin Mondal: PatharpratimaPatharpratimaPatharpratima is an administrative division in Kakdwip subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Patharpratima police station serves this block...
constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Hari Pado Bouri: RaghunathpurRaghunathpur, Purulia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)Raghunathpur is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.-Extent:As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No...
(SC) constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Protiva Mukherjee: SuriSuri (Vidhan Sabha constituency)Suri is an assembly constituency in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The Rajnagar ceases to exist from 2011.-Extent:As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No...
constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Bazle Ahmad: MurariMuraraiMurarai I is an administrative division in Rampurhat subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Murarai police station serves this block...
constituency, West BengalWest BengalWest 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... - Sambhunath NaikSambhunath NaikSambhunath Naik is an Indian politician, belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India . He is a member of the Orissa State Committee of the party.Naik was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Orissa....
: Jashipur (ST) constituency, OrissaOrissaOrissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
Mass organisations
The principal mass organisations of SUCI(C) are:- All India United Trade Union CentreAll India United Trade Union CentreThe All India United Trade Union Centre , formerly known as United Trade Union Centre or UTUC-LS, is a Central Trade Union Organisation in India and the labour wing of the Socialist Unity Centre of India . Presently its activities are spread over 19 states...
- All India Democratic Students Organisation
- All India Democratic Youth Organisation
- All India Mahila Sanskritik SanghathanAll India Mahila Sanskritik SanghathanAll India Mahila Samskritik Sanghatan is the women's wing of the Socialist Unity Centre of India . The National President of the organization is Chaya Mukherjee and the General Secretary is H. G. Jayalakshmi. -External links:**...
- All India Krishak Khet Majdoor SangathanAll India Krishak Khet Majdoor SangathanAll India Krishak Khet Majdoor Sangathan is a peasants and agrarian labour movement in India, politically aligned with the Socialist Unity Centre of India . Satyawan is the All India Secretary of AIKKMS. AIKKMS was initially known as Krishak O Khetmajur Federation....
Publications
The central organ of SUCI(C) is the Proletarian EraProletarian Era
Proletarian Era is the official newspaper of the Socialist Unity Centre of India . It is published from Kolkata in English, with online editions. Shibdas Ghosh founded the newspaper. Nihar Mukherjee was its editor from 1976 to 2010...
, an English forthnighly published from Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
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- Ganadabi (BanglaBengali languageBengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
weekly, published from Kolkata) - Unity (Malayalam monthly, published from ThiruvananthapuramThiruvananthapuramThiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...
) - Ganamukti (AssameseAssamese languageAssamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...
monthly, published from GuwahatiGuwahatiGuwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
) - Karmika Drushtikona (Kannada monthly, published from BangaloreBangaloreBengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
) - Pattali Chinthanai (TamilTamil languageTamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...
monthly, published from ChennaiChennaiChennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
) - Sarbahara (OriyaOriya languageOriya , officially Odia from November, 2011, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal...
monthly, published from BhubaneswarBhubaneswarBhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, officially Odisha. The city has a long history of over 2000 years starting with Chedi dynasty who had Sisupalgarh near present-day Bhubaneswar as their capital...
) - Sarbahara Dristhikon (HindiHindiStandard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
forthnighly, published from DelhiDelhiDelhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
) - Socialist Viplavam (TeluguTelugu languageTelugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
monthly, published from Hyderabad)
Criticism
In 2005 Probodh PurkaitProbodh Purkait
Probodh Purkait is an Indian politician belonging to the Socialist Unity Centre of India . He represented the Kultali constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for more than thirty years....
, a SUCI MLA who represented Kultali
Kultali
Kultali is a town with a police station in Baruipur subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While the poverty-stricken area is struggling for development, it is beset with crime. Violent clashes mark out the area as politically volatile.-Geography:Kultali is...
constituency for 30 years, was convicted for murder and sentenced to life term by the Calcutta High Court. SUCI denounced the court ruling as a 'conspiracy of CPI(M)'. Supreme Court of India on 27 February 2007 dismissed the appeal filed by Prabodh Purkait against the judgment passed by the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court. In April 2008, an SUCI leader Bidhan Chatterjee committed suicide citing the corruption in SUCI as the reason for his suicide. In a letter sent before his death, he accused that the SUCI leaders were "hobnobbing with real estate promoters and foreign-funded NGOs". However, Sri. Provash Ghosh (General Secretary, SUCI(C)) has countered these allegations.
External links
- Marxists Internet Archive: Shibdas Ghosh — Marxists Internet Archive
- Proletarian Era — a SUCI publication
- Ganadabi — a SUCI publication in Bengali