[2][3] Saraf was a leader in the early years of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).
At the CPI(ML) party congress in 1970 Saraf was elected to the Central Committee.
In 1986, Saraf founded his own splinter group, the Internationalist Democratic Party.
Two former Members of the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, Kristhan Dev Sethi and Abdul Kabir Wani, joined Saraf's group.
At the end of December 2002 the Nature-Human Centric Peoples Movement (NHCPM) was formed under his guidance.