After the sudden demise of the CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury earlier this month, the party will now function through the collective leadership of the exiting politburo with Yechury’s predecessor Prakash Karat acting as the “politburo coordinator.”
With the passing away of Sitaram Yechury, India has lost a conscientious politician and revolutionary. He belonged to the first crop of free India’s bright youngsters who carried the dream of a better India, a socialist India which would serve the interests of the many and not just the few.
Sitaram Yechury, CPM general secretary died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ( AIMS), New Delhi this afternoon after a brief illness.
Swara Bhaskar expresses grief over the death of CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, calling him a "towering figure of progressive politics" and a mentor to many.
CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, who passed away at the age of 72 on Thursday, was a product of this liberal faction within the party.
“There is no confusion now among party workers and leaders that our national agenda is to defeat the BJP, our main opponent. In West Bengal too, we are opposing the saffron brigade. However, at the local level, we are also carrying out protests against the TMC. There is no cut and dry solution in Indian politics, going by its history.”
Irrespective of which position Vijayan holds, when he runs the show, he is the final word in the party and one will have to wait to find out which way Yechury will be going.
Ashish, a journalist by profession who would have celebrated his 35th birthday on June 9, was recovering well at Gurgaon''s Medanta Hospital, people close to the family added. They described his sudden death at 5.30 am after a two-week battle with the disease as a shock.
The CPM has been in power in the state and Yechury has his task cut out to oversee his party’s bid to retain the mandate there.
Yechury while addressing the Press in Kolkata said, “A negative atmosphere has built up in West Bengal ahead of the polls and which was seen yesterday when the youth were fiercely attacked by the police. Mamata Banerjee who herself came to power through protest marches is today cracking down on democratic processions.”
