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The Communist Party of India Central Committee office A. K Gopalan Bhawan at Bhai Vir Singh Marg in New Delhi. Election Commission of India's building in New Delhi. As seen in olden days, Old DTC bus, Maruti 800 car, Hindustan Motor's Ambassador car passes through in front of the Election Commission of India's building. The Communist Party of India was founded in late 1925 in Kanpur. Earlier in the decade, however, a number of people, both within and outside India, attempted to establish a communist presence on the subcontinent. Notable was a manifesto issued in 1920 in Tashkent (now in Uzbekistan) by Manabendra Nath Roy (who would become the party’s first leader), Abani Mukherji, and Roy’s wife Evelyn that called for the creation of a communist party in India. The Election Commission of I