Sitaram Yechury

Sitaram Yechury (1952–2024) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 2015 till his death. He served as member of the Rajya Sabha for two terms, from 2005 to 2017. As a student leader with the Students’ Federation of India, he was arrested during the Emergency (1975–77). Following the lifting of the Emergency, he was elected President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union thrice over two years, 1977–78. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI(M) in 1984, and to its Polit Bureau in 1992. A prolific speaker and writer, several collections of his speeches, columns and articles have been published.

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