Centre of Indian Trade Unions

CITU

Full name	Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Founded	1970
Members	3.2 million
Affiliation	WFTU
Key people	A K Padmanabhan, President
Office location	New Delhi, India
Country	India
Website	www.citucentre.org

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (Hindi: भारतीय ट्रेड यूनियन केन्द्र), CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India. It has strong unchallangeable presence in the Indian state of Tripura besides a good presence in West Bengal and Kerala. They have an average presence in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

4th CITU West Bengal state conference poster

According to the provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, CITU had a membership of 3,222,532 in 2002.^[1]

Tapan Sen is the General Secretary of CITU and A. K. Padmanabhan is the president.

References

↑ http://www.labourfile.org/superAdmin/Document/113/table%201.pdf

Communism in India

Communist Party of India AITUC AIKS AIYF AISF NFIW BKMU
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CITU AIKS DYFI SFI AIDWA GMP
Communist Ghadar Party of India Naxalbari uprising Communist Party of India (M-L) Liberation New Democracy Janashakti PCC 2nd CC Red Flag Class Struggle Communist Party of India (Maoist)
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) AIUTUC AIMSS AIDYO AIDSO
Abani Mukherji A. K. Gopalan Ajoy Ghosh Anand Anuradha Ghandy Avtar Singh Malhotra Azad Azhikodan Raghavan Bhupesh Gupta B. T. Ranadive Charu Majumdar E. K. Imbichi Bava E. K. Nayanar E. M. S. Namboodiripad Ganapathy Guru Radha Kishan Jagannath Sarkar Jyoti Basu Saroj Dutta Geeta Mukherjee Prasanta Sur Indrajit Gupta K. Damodaran Kishenji Kobad Ghandy Kondapalli Seetharamaiah Kosa M. N. Roy Moturu Hanumantha Rao Mohit Sen M.P.T. Acharya Narmada Akka P. Krishna Pillai Prashant Bose Puchalapalli Sundaraiah Puran Chand Joshi Shamsher Singh Sheri Shibdas Ghosh T. Nagi Reddy V. S. Achuthanandan
Tebhaga movement CCOMPOSA Telangana Rebellion Comrades Association Communist Party of French India
Communism World Communist Movement
Communism portal

It runs a monthly organ named WORKING CLASS. Tapan sen is the general Secretary and A K Padmanabhan is the president.

External links

Official site

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

General secretaries	P. Sundarayya (1964–78) E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1978–92) Harkishan Singh Surjeet (1992–2005) Prakash Karat (2005–15) Sitaram Yechury (2015–present)

Current Politburo members	Sitaram Yechury Prakash Karat S. Ramachandran Pillai Manik Sarkar Biman Bose Pinarayi Vijayan B. V. Raghavulu Kodiyeri Balakrishnan M. A. Baby Surja Kanta Mishra Brinda Karat Mohammad Salim Subhashini Ali Hannan Mollah G. Ramakrishnan

Chief Ministers	E. M. S. Namboodiripad Jyoti Basu Nripen Chakraborty E. K. Nayanar Dasarath Deb Manik Sarkar Buddhadeb Bhattacharya V. S. Achuthanandan

Related organisations	All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) Students Federation of India (SFI)

Newspapers	People's Democracy The Marxist Deshabhimani Daily Desher Katha Ganashakti Lok Lahar Prajasakti Theekkathir

See also	CPI(M), West Bengal State Committee

Coordinates: 28°37′46.5″N 77°14′18.4″E / 28.629583°N 77.238444°E / 28.629583; 77.238444

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