Leadership

The 19th Congress of the CPI(M) held between March 29 and April 03, 2008 at Coimbatore elected a 87 member Central Committee, with one vacancy. There are also six special invitees to the Central Committee. The Central Committee at its meeting held on April 03, 2008 at the conclusion of the Congress elected a 15 Member Polit Bureau. The C.C. also re-elected Com. Prakash Karat as the General Secretary.

The Party Congress held every three years is the highest decision making body of the Party. In between two Congresses it is the Central Committee which is the highest decision making body.

The 19th Congress also elected a Control Commission with Com. N. Shankariah as the Chairman. The Chairman of the Control Commission is an ex-officio member of the Central Committee.

The CPI(M) has its organisation in most of the states of the Indian Union. It has 19 State Committees and 7 state organising committees. Party units in the states are guided by the respective state committees, who have under them district, zonal, area and local committees. The branch is the primary unit of the Party.

Members of the Polit Bureau Elected at the 19th Congress Coimbatore, March 29 to April 03, 2008
1.Prakash Karat 2.V.S. Achuthanandan (removed from Polit Bureau 12/06/2009) 3.S. Ramachandran Pillai 4.Sitaram Yechury 5.M.K. Pandhe (died Aug. 19, 2011) 6.Biman Basu 7.Manik Sarkar 8.Pinarayi Vijayan	9. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya 10.K. Varadarajan 11.B. V. Raghavulu 12.Brinda Karat 13.Mohd. Amin 14.Nirupam Sen 15.Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Com. Jyoti Basu - Special Invitee to the P.B. (died Jan 17, 2010)
Central Committee (At a Meeting in Kolkata, Oct.12-14, 2008)
Members of the Central Committee Elected at the 19th Congress Coimbatore, March 29 to April 03, 2008
1.Jyoti Basu (died Jan. 17, 2010) 2.Prakash Karat 3.V.S. Achuthanandan 4.S. Ramachandran Pillai 5.Sitaram Yechury 6.R. Umanath 7.M.K. Pandhe (died Aug. 19, 2011) 8.Biman Basu 9.Manik Sarkar 10.Pinarayi Vijayan 11.Buddhadeb Bhattacharya 12.K. Varadarajan 13.B. V. Raghavulu 14.Brinda Karat 15.P. Ramaiah 16.T. Veerbhadram 17.V. Srinivasa Rao 18.P. Madhu 19.Heman Das 20.Noorul Huda 21.Uddhab Barman 22.Subodh Roy (expelled on 01/09/2010) 23.Jogendra Sharma 24.P.M.S. Grewal 25.Arun Mehta 26.Inderjit Singh 27.Rakesh Singha 28.Mohd Yusuf Tarigami 29.J.S. Majumdar 30.M.A. Baby 31.Paloli Mohd. Kutty 32.P.K. Gurudasan 33.P. Karunakaran 34.P.K. Shrimathi 35.Kodiyeri Balakrishnan 36.M.C. Josephine 37.E. P. Jayarajan 38.Ashok Dhawale 39.Kumar Shiralkar 40.Janardan Pati 41.Balwant Singh (expelled from the Party) 42.Charan Singh Virdhi 43.Vasudev 44.N. Varadarajan 45.T.K. Rangarajan	46.A. K. Padmanabhan 47.U. Vasuki 48.Aghore Debarma 49.Bijan Dhar 50.Khagen Das 51.Subhashini Ali 52.S. P. Kashyap 53.Mohd. Amin 54.Sukomal Sen 55.Hannan Mollah 56.Benoy Konar 57.Nirupam Sen 58.Mohd. Salim 59.Shyamal Chakraborty 60.Surjyokanta Mishra 61.Shyamali Gupta 62.Banani Biswas 63.Basudev Acharya 64.Nilotpal Basu 65.Hari Singh Kang 66.W.R. Varada Rajan (Removed From CC -- Feb. 2010) 67.Suneet Chopra 68.A. Vijayaraghavan 69.Hemalatha New Members 70.Gautam Deb 71.Madan Ghosh 72.Mridul De 73.Vaikom Viswan 74.Thomas Isaac 75.Badal Choudhury 76.Bajuban Riyan 77.M.A. Gafoor 78.S. Punyavati 79.G. Ramakrishnan 80.Vijaykant Thakur 81.Sudha Sundararaman 82.Rama Das 83.V J K Nair 84.K L Bajaj 85.Badal Saroj 86.Tapan Sen 87.Vacant
Special Invitees to the Central Committee 1. Harkishan Singh Surjeet (Died 01/08/2008) 2. Samar Mukherjee 3. E. Balanandan (Died 19/01/2009) 4. P Ramachandran (Died 08/07/2008) 5. Pappa Umanath (Died December 17, 2010) 6. Mallu Swarajyam	Control Commission 1. N. Shankaraiah 2. Kanti Biswas 3. G Ramulu 4. Rekha Goswami 5. P. Rajendran

Members Of PB Elected At Previous Congresses