   ashim chatterjee is an indian politician and a former naxalite leader. he was a student leader of communist party of india (marxist-leninist) (cpi(ml)) in calcutta. chatterjee broke ranks with charu majumdar in 1971 after the failure of the attempts to build an armed movement in the debra-gopiballavbur area in west bengal and due to the opposition of cpi(ml) towards the liberation struggle of bangladesh. he was imprisoned during 1972-78. chatterjee formed the bengal-bihar-odisha border regional committee, cpi(ml) as a separate faction. his group joined the cpi(ml) of satyanarayan singh. later chatterjee formed the communist revolutionary league of india. he unsuccessfully contested west bengal legislative assembly (bidhan sabha) elections twice - first as a communist party of india (marxist) (cpi(m)) supported independent and in 2006, as a trinamul congress supported candidate. he is popularly called as comrade kaka. ==references==   
Indian_communists Living_people NaxaliteaMaoist_insurgency University_of_Calcutta_alumni West_Bengal_politicians