The movement dominated the political scene in the colony for a brief period until the emergence of a split between the socialists and communists in the coalition.
[1] The front consisted of communists, socialists, the Mahajan Sabha and the Combat group (led by Julien Adiceam, who had arrived in French India from Algeria).
[5] The National Democratic Front won 30 out of the 44 seats in the 1946 French India Representative Assembly election.
[10] In July 1947 Edouard Goubert and his followers broke away from the National Democratic Front and formed the French India Socialist Party.
[11] What remained of the National Democratic Front became dominated by the Communist Party of French India.