Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) was founded by Saifuddin Choudhury on 21st of February, 2001.
Saifuddin Choudhury and Samir Putatunda, two former leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist)with a number of their colleagues, disenchanted with the outdated policies, broke away protesting against authoritarian centralism of CPI (M) and started building the long waited platform for the democratically committed socialists, communists and politicians of other hues in West Bengal and other par
ts of India. PDS is a social party committed to the ideals of democracy, secularism, green and peace .These ideals are sweeping the world today and will more vigorously do the same in future. P.D.S is inspired by the success of democratic, socialist, and social democratic parties all over the world on these important matters and recognizes the everlasting relevance of these values for Indian realities. PDS espouses a forward looking, progressive, environment friendly, multi-cultural and scientifically enlightened democracy in India. It would pursue a vigorous development plan based on green technologies and aiming at job generation in rural areas. PDS recognizes that technological revolution and its successful uniform deployment all across the country would be central to India’s success in 21st century. PDS also recognizes mass scale illiteracy, corruption in every layer of Governance and chronic hunger of a large number of the population as three main retrograde elements in Indian democracy which it vows to eliminate with the help of e-Governance, technological revolution in agriculture , massive state funding for primary & secondary education and unfettered development of entrepreneurial power of the people.
