The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is an underground, far-left M.htm Left-wing Extremist group" target="_blank">Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), South Asia Terrorism Portal _Maoist political party in India. It was founded on September 21, 2004, through the merger of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India. The merger was announced to the public on October 14 the same year. In the merger a provisional central committee was constituted, with PW leader Ganapati as General Secretary. The CPI (Maoist) are often referred to as Naxalites in reference to the Naxalbari insurrection by radical Maoists in West Bengal in 1967.
