Recent History
In August 1998 CPI(ML) Party Unity merged with CPI(ML)PW. CPI(ML) Party Unity had been based in Bihar, and after the merger CPI(ML)PW expanded its geographic scope of operations significantly. It began establishing state committees in states like Kerala, Haryana and Punjab.
In October 2002 CPI(ML)PW issued a declaration containing death threats against the Chief Minister of three Indian states; Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Chandrababu Naidu and Babulal Marandi. Exactly a year later, the organization conducted an assassination attempt against Chandrababu Naidu.
On 21 September 2004 CPI(ML)PW merged with Maoist Communist Centre of India to form Communist Party of India (Maoist).
In November 2004 a mass rally of some 150,000 people was held in Hyderabad in support of CPI(ML)PW (the merger into CPI(Maoist) had not yet been made public at this point).
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