The first Communist Party of India (CPI) conference in Kanpur in December 1925 featured a presidential speech by M. Singaravelu. He addressed various issues through a communist lens, including untouchability as an economic problem tied to agrarian dependence. Singaravelu criticized Gandhi's khadi initiative as problematic for the masses, viewed Buddha and Jesus as communists, and labeled the Congress a 'bourgeois' party, while praising figures like Lenin and Lokmanya Tilak.