The Shanti Pal group emerged as through a split in the North Bengal-Bihar Regional Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), being the pro-Lin Biao faction.
[2] After forming his own faction Pal remained loyal to the line of the CPI(ML) leader Charu Majumdar.
[3] The party opposes participation in elections and calls for armed agrarian revolution.
[6] On 9 March 1993 COC, CPI(ML) Shanti Pal militants killed nine people in Amjhora village, Banka District.
[citation needed] As of 2006 the leader of Shanti Pal group in Madhepura was in jail, sentenced for the killing of a mukhya.