High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! R. P. Saraf, full name Ram Piara Saraf, (1924 – 24 June 2009) was a Kashmiri politician. In 1952, Saraf was elected to the Constituent assembly of Jammu and Kashmir from the Kadal constituency. He was a member of the state legislative assembly for ten years. In 1958, he co founded the Democratic National Conference Party. Saraf was a leader in the early years of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). In Kashmir the entire Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) organization had gone with Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (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 later lead his own splinter-group, the Internationalist Democratic Party. He is the...