Democratic Youth Federation of India
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Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) (in Hindi भारत कि जनवादी नौजवन सभा, Bharat ki Janvadi Naujavan Sabha) is a strong and young communist organisation working in India. It is a left-wing organisation founded in its inaugural conference held from 1–3 November 1980 at Shaheed Kartar Singh Saraba village in Ludhiana, Punjab.As of 2012, DYFI had a membership strength of 16.2 million which rose from 13.4 million in 2011. The annual membership fee of DYFI is a meager Rs. 2 and is open to all youth between the age 15 and 40 irrespective of their political ideology.
DYFI identifies itself to be an independent organisation, however a number of eminent leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) like former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who was a former secretary of Bengal fraction and a founder Central Committee member of DYFI, Manik Sarkar - the present chief minister of Tripura - was a vice president of the organisation, M. Vijayakumar who was the speaker of Kerala legislative assembly was once former all-India president of DYFI.
