Sitaram Yechury, 72, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) has passed away, according to confirmation from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.He died on Thursday. Yechury, who is known for being cooperative, has recently emerged as one of his party’s most visible and prominent members.
As per Teacher Rima Dada from AIIMS’s clinical cell, Yechury had been confessed to the clinic on August 19 and was experiencing pneumonia. “The family has donated his body to AIIMS, New Delhi, for teaching and research purposes,” Dada stated.
Yechury started his political excursion as an understudy chief at Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) close to quite a while back and turned into the CPI(M) boss in 2015. During his initiative, the party framed its first pre-survey union with Congress and other resistance groups, making the Indian Public Formative Comprehensive Coalition (INDIA) last year.
In the 2024 public decisions, a CPI(M) parliamentarian was chosen from Rajasthan interestingly. In any case, the party and the more extensive Left alliance attempted to recapture lost ground, particularly in West Bengal, where they had managed for a very long time. The CPI(M) now holds no assembly or Lok Sabha seats in Bengal and lost power in Tripura after 25 years in 2018. Currently, the party has four members each in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and 78 assembly members.
Despite the CPI(M)’s shrinking base, Yechury’s political influence persisted in the opposition camp. He gained prominence in the 1970s by preventing then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from attending a JNU event and reading out the students’ demand for her resignation.
Yechury also developed a strong relationship with former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, which occasionally irked some CPI(M) and Congress leaders. When Congress leader Jairam Ramesh jokingly referred to Yechury as “CPI(M) general secretary for Congress” at a press conference, Sonia Gandhi admonished Ramesh for putting Yechury in an uncomfortable position.
