It was above all Jawaharlal Nehru who imported a socialist vision to the national movement.
At the Lahore session in 1929 Nehru introduced this idea.
The Congress Socialist Party was founded in October 1934 at Bombay under the leadership of Jaya Prakash Narayan, Acharya Narendra Dev and Minoo Masani
The CSP supported the Quit India Movement.
Socialist ideas led to the emergence of Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Congress Socialist party.
Towards the end of 1920 M.N. Roy and other Indian emigres at Tashkant formed a communist party of India. In India on 1st September, 1924 Satyabhakta in a press note announced the for mation of the Communist Party of India with himself as the Secretary.
In December 1928 the All India Worker and Peasants Party came into existence.
The government declared CPI illegal in 1934.

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