BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi (BTR-EMS-AKG People's Forum) was a political group in the South India

India

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n state of Kerala

Kerala

or 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....

, a splinter-group of 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...

. The group was led by expelled CITU

Centre of Indian Trade Unions

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-leader V.B. Cheriyan (CITU is the trade union of CPI(M)). Whether the movement was to be classified as a party is unclear, but it acted in a party-like manner. The group was considered as being to the left of CPI(M).

In the Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha

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 elections 2004 BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi had formed a front together with Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag

Communist Party of India Red Flag was a political party in India. CPI Red Flag was formed in 1988 as a break-away from the Central Reorganization Committee, CPI. The party's main base of support was in Kerala, where it emerged as the major ML faction...

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Election result for the candidates of BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi:

• Mukundapuram: D.R. Pisharodi 6020 votes (0,83%)
• Ernakulam: P.S. Gangadharan 6185 votes (0,94%)
• Moovattupuzha: Appukkuttan 2001 votes (0,27%)
• Mavelikara: R. Kavitha 897 votes (0,14%)
• Adoor: P.K. Ramanan 4603 votes (0,67%)
• Kollam: Viswavalsalan 4919 votes (0,7%)
• Chirayinkeezhu: Sreenivasa Das 1141 votes (0,17%)
• Thiruvananthapuram: Pratap Singh 617 votes (0,08%)

The group name contains the names of three historical CPI(M) leaders, B.T. Ranadive, E. M. S. Namboodiripad

E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, , popularly known as EMS, was an Indian Communist leader and the first Chief Minister of Kerala. As the first non-Congress chief minister in independent India, he became the leader of the first democratically elected communist government in the world...

 and A.K. Gopalan.

In 2005 the group merged into the Marxist Communist Party of India (United)

Marxist Communist Party of India (United)

Marxist Communist Party of India is a communist party in India, formed in 2005 by the unification of the Marxist Communist Party of India, the Mangat Ram Pasla-led breakaway group from the Communist Party of India in Punjab, the BTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Vedi and the Hardan Roy group in...

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