NEW DELHI: Veteran CPM chief Sitaram Yechury handed away on Thursday on the age of 72 after extended sickness, marking an finish to a political legacy that spanned virtually 5 a long time.
Yechury was present process remedy for Pneumonia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
Marking the start of his political profession at Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU), he turned a distinguished chief within the College students’ Federation of India (SFI) and was deeply concerned in pupil actions.
His activism in the course of the Emergency interval (1975-77) additional established him as a fervent advocate for civil liberties and left-wing ideas.
He served as a Rajya Sabha member for 12 years, from 2005 to 2017. On April 19, 2015, in the course of the twenty first occasion congress in Visakhapatnam, he was elected because the fifth basic secretary of the CPIM, succeeding Prakash Karat.
He additionally performed a key function within the INDIA bloc, the coalition of opposition events. Moreover, he was acknowledged as one of many political mentors of Congress chief and Lok Sabha chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Yechury was born on August 12, 1952, in Chennai and was raised in Hyderabad and Delhi.
Yechury was present process remedy for Pneumonia at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
Marking the start of his political profession at Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU), he turned a distinguished chief within the College students’ Federation of India (SFI) and was deeply concerned in pupil actions.
His activism in the course of the Emergency interval (1975-77) additional established him as a fervent advocate for civil liberties and left-wing ideas.
He served as a Rajya Sabha member for 12 years, from 2005 to 2017. On April 19, 2015, in the course of the twenty first occasion congress in Visakhapatnam, he was elected because the fifth basic secretary of the CPIM, succeeding Prakash Karat.
He additionally performed a key function within the INDIA bloc, the coalition of opposition events. Moreover, he was acknowledged as one of many political mentors of Congress chief and Lok Sabha chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi.
Yechury was born on August 12, 1952, in Chennai and was raised in Hyderabad and Delhi.
