United Communist Party of India

United Communist Party of India
AbbreviationUCPI
General SecretarySukhinder Singh Dhaliwal
Founded1989
Merger ofAll India Communist Party
Indian Communist Party
Headquarters29/116, Gali No.10, Vishwas Nagar, Shahdra, Delhi-110 032.
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionLeft-wing
ECI StatusRegistered-Unrecognized
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United Communist Party of India (UCPI), is a political party in India. It was formed in 1989 when Indian Communist Party led by Com. Mohit Sen along with Com Ramesh Sinha, M. Kalyanasundaram, K.Manickam, D. Pandian, and SU. Palanisamy; All India Communist Party led by S.A. Dange and Roza Deshpande; and Communist Party of Punjab led Com. Wadhawa Ram and Sukhinder Singh Dhaliwal; decided to merge their formations and called for national conference of communists.

The founding conference was held at Salem, Tamil Nadu in May 1989. Delegates from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, W. Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Goa and Kerala met and declared the formation of United Communist Party of India. S.A Dange and Mohit Sen were elected chairman and General-secretary respectively of the newly formed central committee. S.A.Dange, Mohit Sen, Ramesh Sinha, Roza Deshpande, D. Pandian, K.M. Sundram, Sukhinder Singh,[1] K.Manickam, Keshav Sachan and Shyam Narain Tiwari were elected as Political Committee members.[2] Veteran communist leader Mohit Sen was the general secretary of the party until his death in 2003.[3]

UCPI participates in the Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists.[4]

  1. ^ the Hindhu, 19 February 2009
  2. ^ Glimpses of the history-Indian Communist Movement(1925-1995) page 43 1st para,by Mohit Sen
  3. ^ Financial Express - Veteran Communist Leader Mohit Sen Passes Away
  4. ^ "The Hindu : Kerala News : Briefly". www.hindu.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.