R. P. Saraf
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R.P. Saraf, full name Ram Piara Saraf, a Kashmiri politician. Saraf was a leader in the early years of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). In Kashmir the entire CPI(M) organization had gone with CPI(ML). At the CPI(ML) party congress in 1970 Saraf was elected to the Central Committee. Two former Members of the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, Kristhan Dev Sethi and Abdul Kabir Wani, joined Saraf's group. The formerly CPI(M) local organ Jammu Sandesh became the regional CPI(ML) publication.
Saraf would later lead his own splinter-group, the International Democratic Party.
