Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari
Abbreviation	CPI (M-L) NB
Founder	Rauf
Founded	1997
Dissolved	2014
Split from	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Naxalbari was an underground

Maoist political party in India. The party had its roots partially in the Maoist Unity Centre, CPI (ML) and partially in the group of Rauf in Andhra Pradesh

.

MUC, CPI (ML) was formed when Kerala Communist Party and Maharashtra Communist Party merged in 1997. These two groups were surviving state units of the

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag

broke away, after the Red Flag split in 1987 there was not much left of the CRC, CPI (ML).

Rauf was the leader of the small

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag unit in Andhra Pradesh

. Large parts of the leadership of Rauf's faction were killed in police raids in the 1980s, and the group never recovered. Rauf had been pushing for an ultraleft line within Red Flag, and in 2000 he split. After the merger with CPI (ML) Naxalbari (formerly MUC, CPI (ML)) Rauf became the general secretary for the unified party.

CPI (ML) Naxalbari were members of

CCOMPOSA

. The RIM-membership was inherited from CRC, CPI (ML), which was one of three founding organisations of RIM.

CPI (ML) advocated armed struggle and they only recognised groups such as

communist

.

On 1 May 2014 CPI (ML) Naxalbari merged with CPI (Maoist) and formed a single party, CPI (Maoist).^[1]