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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can . Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:24, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Real Communist Party of India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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I created this article back in 2004, when online sourcing was more scarce than today. So to recap, in the 1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and 1991 Assam Legislative Assembly election three candidates appears in election results from the Election Commission of India as candidates of the RCPI, Real Communist Party of India. Looking at the constituencies, there is clearly a linkage to the Revolutionary Communist Party of India. This is the same year as two different Revolutionary Communist Party of India appears in ECI records - RCPI(Rasik Bhatt) and RCPI(Gouranga Sinha). See [1], [2]

The supposed Real Communist Party of India (listed as RCPI) candidate in the Santipur Assembly constituency, Asim Ghosh, was clearly Left Front-supported. But nowhere is there any mention of the Real Communist Party of India having joined the LF. If the Real Communist Party of India was a separate LF member or ally, that should have come up in CPI(M) media (like the memoirs of Jyoti Basu, for instance). Notably Santipur had been held by Bimalananda Mukherjee of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India in the 1987 election.

The work Election Results of West Bengal: Statistics & Analysis, 1952-1991, compiled by the CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee and arguably an authoritative source on all issues on the LF states that Asim Ghosh in 1991 was a Revolutionary Communist Party of India candidate.

Today I encountered copies of the Mizoram Gazette from 1989 and 1991 which includes ECI party registration listing. The registered Real Communist Party of India has its address at the home of a K. Kvankata Subhaiah in Kovur, Nellore district. The listing also includes registrations of RCPI(RB) and RCPI(GS) with addresses in Calcutta.

It's very likely that the Kovur-based Real Communist Party of India had nothing to do with the Revolutionary Communist Party of India. Presumably it was a one-man outfit. Presumably the listing of the 3 candidates as 'RCPI' rather than RCPI(RB) or RCPI(GS) candidates by ECI in 1991 would have been an error. There have been other such cases, such as the mix-up between Biplobi Bangla Congress and Bharater Biplobi Communist Party in earlier election.

The Mizoram Gazette copies also mentions a 'Communist Party of India (Realism)' based in Calcutta. Perhaps the moniker 'Realist Communist Party of India' originates from a mix-up with that party. Soman (talk) 23:24, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics, and India. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 03:57, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment You could just PROD this. It doesn’t need to come to AfD. Mccapra (talk) 07:35, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • With a PROD, you'd have no means of fleshing out the rationale for deletion. I'm not really expecting a lot of debate here, but without the deletion rationale documented it could occur that the article be recreated by someone making the same assumption as I did back in the days (speculating that RCPI and RCPI(RB) were separate parties in West Bengal in 1991). So in the longer run, doing this via AfD might be more time efficient. --Soman (talk) 10:16, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete article has been here since 2004. I don't see good sourcing for it after 2 decades. Nominator is article creator, so will follow their lead. Ramos1990 (talk) 21:59, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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