The comrades who lead the party in Parliament, in the Assemblies and among the people.
Comrade Manoj Bhattacharya leads the Revolutionary Socialist Party nationally as its General Secretary. Under his leadership the party works within the Left Front in West Bengal and Tripura and the INDIA bloc at the national level, while its Kerala unit is part of the United Democratic Front.
Navaikulam Krishna Pillai Premachandran is the leader of the RSP in the Lok Sabha and a member of the Lok Sabha Panel of Chairpersons. A lawyer by training, he took his LLB from Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram with first rank, he began in local government in Navaikulam and Thiruvananthapuram.
He was first elected to Parliament from Kollam in 1996, re-elected in 1998, served in the Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006, and was Kerala's Minister for Water Resources from 2006 to 2011. Since 2014 he has won Kollam three more times. He is known for his speeches in Parliament and for raising issues such as the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam.
Shibu Baby John, son of the veteran RSP leader Baby John, has been State Secretary of the RSP in Kerala since February 2023. An engineering graduate of TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, he represents Chavara in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
He was first elected from Chavara in 2001 and again in 2011, serving as Kerala's Minister for Labour and Employment from 2011 to 2016. Elected once more in 2026, he is now Minister for Forests, Wildlife Protection and Skill Development, with charge of employment and training, the Kerala Academy for Skills Excellence and the cashew industry.
Elected in 2026, when the RSP returned to the Assembly after a decade.
Minister for Forests, Wildlife Protection and Skill Development, and RSP Kerala State Secretary.
Born in Kunnathur in 1980 and a former State President of the Revolutionary Youth Front. Won Kunnathur in 2026 with 81,488 votes, a majority of 25,314.
Advocate, born in 1987, and State Secretary of the Revolutionary Youth Front. Won Eravipuram in 2026 with 64,383 votes, a majority of 8,803.
Freedom fighter, founder of the RSP, seven-term Member of Parliament and a voice for the working people for more than six decades.
Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri was born in Dhaka on 13 December 1911 and studied in Murshidabad and Berhampore. At Krishnath College he joined the revolutionary Anushilan Samiti. Arrested in 1931, he was held in the Hijli and Deoli detention camps until 1937, and passed his BA and his MA in Economics while in prison.
Those years of study turned him and his comrades into convinced Marxists. He played a leading part in forming the Revolutionary Socialist Party in 1940, and was detained again from 1940 to 1946 for supporting Subhas Chandra Bose's anti-war line. After Independence he built the party as its General Secretary for more than three decades, and held senior positions in the United Trade Union Congress.
He was elected from Berhampore to seven consecutive Lok Sabhas from 1952 to 1984. In July 1955, as a sitting MP, he entered Goa with a batch of satyagrahis against Portuguese rule. Sentenced to 12 years, he was released after 19 months, and Jawaharlal Nehru called him a national hero and did not field a Congress candidate against him in 1957.
In 1974 he was the joint opposition candidate for President of India. During the Emergency he spoke for the parties that opposed it. He entered the Rajya Sabha in 1987, was returned in 1993, and led the RSP in Parliament until his death on 21 December 1997. Prime Minister I. K. Gujral remembered him as "a champion of the downtrodden".
A gifted orator and a prolific writer, he edited the party journal The Call and wrote Nineteen Months in Salazar's Prison, The Swing Back, Why RSP? and Four and a Half Decades of the RSP.
Sources: Wikipedia, The Wire, Mainstream Weekly
Revolutionary of the Anushilan Samiti and HSRA who led the party from 1940 to 1953.
Founder of the party, elected to the first Lok Sabha from Berhampore in 1952 and General Secretary from 1953.
Builder of the Kerala party from 1949, former Kerala minister and General Secretary of the RSP.
Brought the Kerala Socialist Party into the RSP in 1949 and won Quilon in the first Lok Sabha election.
The world-renowned astrophysicist won Calcutta North West in 1952, one of the RSP's three seats in the first Lok Sabha.
General Secretary of the party from 2008 to 2018.
