Ashim Chatterjee

Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history Ashim Chatterjee (born 1944)[1] is an Indian politician and a former Naxalite leader.

[3] Chatterjee broke ranks with Charu Majumdar in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement in the Debra-Gopiballavbur area in West Bengal and due to the opposition of CPI(ML) towards the liberation struggle of Bangladesh.

Chatterjee formed the Bengal-Bihar-Odisha Border Regional Committee, CPI(ML) as a separate faction.

Later Chatterjee formed the Communist Revolutionary League of India.

[4] He unsuccessfully contested West Bengal legislative assembly (Bidhan Sabha) elections twice - first as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) supported Independent and in 2006, as a Trinamool Congress supported candidate.