The founding conference was held at Salem, Tamil Nadu in May 1989. Delegates from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, W. Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Goa and Kerala met and declared the formation of United Communist Party of India. S.A Dange and Mohit Sen were elected chairman and General-secretary respectively of the newly formed central committee. S.A.Dange, Mohit Sen, Ramesh Sinha, Roza Deshpande, D. Pandian, K.M. Sundram, Sukhinder Singh,[1] K.Manickam, Keshav Sachan and Shyam Narain Tiwari were elected as Political Committee members.[2] Veteran communist leader Mohit Sen was the general secretary of the party until his death in 2003.[3]
1992 Punjab assembly elections
UCPI contested two seats of Malout and Abohar. Its candidate Com. Baldev Singh Ballamgarh was elected from Malout constituency while Abohar candidate Bhag Singh Chug lost.
Kerala
Secretary: Comrade Prem Medayil
United Communist Party of India has started in Kerala under the leadership of Com. Prem Medayil
Acting President is Com. Mundur Murali.
Secretariate Members: Ajithkumar Eravath (Kozhikode), Sreejith (Thiruvananthapuram), Sathish (Alappuzha), Fazal (Alappuzha),Baby Joseph (Idukki), Noby Augustine(Ernakulam), Joicy (Thrissur), Muhammad (Palakkad), Junish Babu (Kozhikode), Noushad (Malappuram) Omana(Kollam), Sydney Rolland (Kozhikode)
2007 UP election
In the 2007 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh UCPI launched three candidate, Devi Dayal Yadav in Karki (572 votes, 0.49% of the votes in the constituency), Anand Kumar in Baberu (899 votes, 0.82%) and Vimal Krishan Srivastav in Banda (456 votes, 0.39%).[5]
2000 Andhra Pradesh Municipal Elections
In 2000 municipal elections of Andhra Pradesh UCPI candidate Mr. Chadalawada Jagannadham have contested for Municipal Corporator for 49th ward[where?] with the symbol of congress party (As UCPI has no recognition with EC).Out of total 3500(Approximately) total voters polling percentage was about 65% and Mr. Jagannadham won with a majority of approximately 700 votes over his nearest rival from the TDP party. Five years he have served as Corporation Education and Library Committee Chairman and corporations representative in the committee of Hindu college.