Leadership

The  20th Congress of the CPI(M) held between April 04 and 09 2012 at Kozhikode, Kerala elected a 89 member with two vacancies. There are also four special invitees and two permanent invitees to the Central Committee. The Central Committee at its meeting held on April 09, 2012 at the conclusion of the Congress elected a 15 member Polit Bureau. The C.C. also re-elected Com. Prakash Karat as the General Secretary.
 
The Party Congress held every three years is the highest decision making body of the Party. In between two Congresses it is the Central Committee which is the highest decision making body.
 
The 20th Congress also elected a Control Commission with Com. Benoy Konar as the Chairperson. The Chairperson of the Control Commission is an ex-officio member of the Central Committee.
 
The CPI(M) has its organisation in most of the states of the Indian Union. It has 19 State Committees and 7 state organising committees. Party units in the states are guided by the respective state committees, who have under them district, zonal, area and local committees. The branch is the primary unit of the Party. 
 
Central Committee Elected at the 20th Congress
 
New Polit Bureau
 
 
1.      Prakash Karat (General Secretary)
2.      S Ramachandran Pillai
3.      Sitaram Yechury
4.      Biman Basu      
5.      Manik Sarkar
6.      Pinarayi Vijayan
7.      Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
8.      K. Vardha Rajan
9.      B. V. Raghavulu
10.    Brinda Karat (W)
11.    Nirupam Sen
12.    Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
13.    M.A. Baby
14.    Surja Kanta Mishra
15.    A K Padmanabhan
 
 
List of Central Committee Members
1.       Prakash Karat
2.       S Ramachandran Pillai
3.       Sitaram Yechury
4.       Biman Basu      
5.       Manik Sarkar
6.       Pinarayi Vijayan
7.       Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
8.       K. Vardha Rajan
9.       B. V. Raghavulu
10.    Brinda Karat (W)
11.    Nirupam Sen
12.    Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
13.    P. Ramaiah
14.    Thamineni Veerbhadram
15.    Penumalli Madhu
16.    M A. Gafoor
17.    Sunkara Punyavathi (W)
18.    Uddhab Barman
19.    Vijay Kant Thakur
20.    P.M.S. Grewal
21.    Arun Mehta
22.    Inderjit Singh
23.    Rakesh Singha
24.    Mohd Yousuf Tarigami
25.    J.S. Majumdar
26.    V S Achuthanandan
27.    M. A. Baby
28.    Paloli Mohd Kutty
29.    P.K. Gurudasan
30.    P. Karunakaran 
31.    P.K.Shrimathi (W)
32.    M.C. Josephine (W)
33.    E. P. Jayarajan
34.    Vaikom Viswan
35.    Thomas Isaac
36.    Badal Saroj
37.    Ashok Dhawale
38.    K L Bajaj
39.    Janardan Pati
40.    Charan Singh Virdi
41.    Vasu Deo
42.    Amra Ram
43.    T.K. Rangarajan
44.    U. Vasuki (W)
45.    G. Ramakrishnan
46.    Aghore Deb Barma
47.    Bijan Dhar
48.    Khagen Das
49.    Badal Choudhury
50.    Bajuban Riyan
51.    Rama Das (W)
52.    Subhashini Ali (W)
53.    S. P. Kashyap
54.    Mohd. Salim
55.    Shyamal Chakraborty
56.    Surjya Kanta Mishra
57.    Shyamali Gupta (W)
58.    Banani Biswas (W)
59.    Basudev Acharia
60.    Gautam Deb
61.    Madan Ghosh
62.    Mridul De
63.    Hari Singh Kang
64.    V. Srinivasa Rao
65.    Hannan Mollah
66.    Nilotpal Basu
67.    Jogendra Sharma
68.    Sukomal Sen
69.    Suneet Chopra
70.    A. Vijayaraghavan
71.    A.K. Padmanabhan
72.    K. Hemalata (W)
73.    Tapan Sen
74.    Sudha Sundararaman (W)
 
 

 
New Members
75.    Dipak Dasgupta (West Bengal)
76.    Rekha Goswami (West Bengal) – (W)
77.    Nripen Choudhury (West Bengal)
78.    K K Shailaja (Kerala) – (W)
79.    A Soundararajan (Tamilnadu)
80.    K Balakrishnan (Tamilnadu)
81.    P Sampath (Tamilnadu)
82.    S Veeraiah (Andhra Pradesh)
83.    Narasayya Adam (Maharashtra)
84.    G V Srirama Reddy (Karnataka)
85.    G K Bakshi (Jharkhand)
86.    Deben Bhattacharya (Assam)
87.    Rajendra Sharma (Centre)
88.    vacant
89.    vacant
 
 
Permanent Invitees
 
1.    Vijai Rawat
2.    M. K. Nandi
 
Special Invitees
 
1.    Samar Mukheree
2.    R. Umanath
3.    Mohd. Amin
4.    Mallu Swarajyam (W)
 
Central Control Commission
 
1.    Benoy Konar (Chairperson)
2.    P. Rajendran
3.    G. Ramulu
4.    Minoti Ghosh (W)
5.    R. Govindaraj