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Membership

CPI(M) 18th Congress rally in Delhi

CPI(M) rally in Agartala

A tableaux in a CPI(M) rally in Kerala, India showing two farmers forming the hammer and sickle, the most famous communist symbol.

As of 2004, the party claimed a membership of 867 763

State	2001	2002	2003	2004	% of party members in electorate
Andhra Pradesh	40785	41879	45516	46742	0.0914
Assam	10480	11207	11122	10901	0.0726
Andaman & Nicobar	172	140	124	90	0.0372
Bihar	17672	17469	16924	17353	0.0343
Chhattisgarh	1211	1364	1079	1054	0.0077
Delhi	1162	1360	1417	1408	0.0161
Goa	172	35	40	67	0.0071
Gujarat	2799	3214	3383	3398	0.0101
Haryana	1357	1478	1477	1608	0.0131
Himachal Pradesh	1005	1006	1014	1024	0.0245
Jammu & Kashmir	625	720	830	850	0.0133
Jharkhand	2552	2819	3097	3292	0.0200
Karnataka	6574	7216	6893	6492	0.0168
Kerala	301562	313652	318969	316305	1.4973
Madhya Pradesh	2243	2862	2488	2320	0.0060
Maharashtra	8545	9080	9796	10256	0.0163
Manipur	340	330	270	300	0.0195
Orissa	3091	3425	3502	3658	0.0143
Punjab	14328	11000	11000	10050	0.0586
Rajasthan	2602	3200	3507	3120	0.0090
Sikkim	200	180	65	75	0.0266
Tamil Nadu	86868	90777	91709	94343	0.1970
Tripura	38737	41588	46277	51343	2.5954
Uttarakhand	700	720	740	829	0.0149
Uttar Pradesh	5169	5541	5477	5877	0.0053
West Bengal	245026	262882	258682	274921	0.579
CC staff	96	95	95	87
Total	796073	835239	843896	867763	0.1292

Leadership

CPI(M) leaders at the 18th party congress

Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Jyoti Basu

The current general secretary of CPI(M) is Prakash Karat. The 19th party congress of CPI(M), held in Coimbatore March 29-April 3, 2008 elected a Central Committee with 87 members. The Central Committee later elected a 15-member Politburo:

• Prakash Karat
• Sitaram Yechury
• S. Ramachandran Pillai
• Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
• Manik Sarkar
• M.K. Pandhe
• Biman Bose
• Pinarayi Vijayan
• K. Varadarajan
• B.V. Raghavulu
• Brinda Karat
• Nirupam Sen
• Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
• Mohammad Amin
• M. A. Baby

The senior most member, V.S. Achuthanandan was removed from the Polit Bureau on July 12, 2009.
The 19th congress saw the departure of the last two members of the Polit Bureau who had been on the original Polit Bureau in 1964, Harkishen Singh Surjeet and Jyoti Basu.^[27]

State Committee secretaries

• Andaman & Nicobar: K.G. Das
• Andhra Pradesh: B.V. Raghavulu
• Assam: Uddhab Barman
• Bihar: Vijaykant Thakur
• Chattisgarh: M.K. Nandi
• Delhi: P.M.S. Grewal
• Goa: Thaelman Perera
• Haryana: Inderjit Singh
• Jharkhand: G.K. Bakshi
• Karnataka: G.V.Shree Ram Reddy
• Kerala : Pinarayi Vijayan
• Madhya Pradesh: Badal Saroj
• Maharashtra: Feroz Ali Khan
• Orissa: Janardan Pati
• Punjab: Charan Singh Virdi(Acting)
• Rajasthan: Vasudev Sharma
• Sikkim: Balram Adhikari
• Tamil Nadu: G.Ramakrishnan
• Tripura: Bijan Dhar
• Uttarakhand: Vijai Rawat
• Uttar Pradesh: S.P. Kashyap
• West Bengal: Biman Bose
• Himachal Pradesh: Rakesh Singh

Former General Secretaries

No	Name	Tenure
1st	P. Sundarayya	1964 - 1978
2nd	E.M.S. Namboodiripad	1978 - 1992
3rd	Harkishan Singh Surjeet	1992 - 2008
4th	Prakash Karat	2008–Present