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Sitaram Yechury

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  • Born 12 August 1952
  • Birth Place Chennai
  • Profession Politician
  • Political Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist)
  • In Office General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of India (Marxist) 19 April 2015 - 12 September 2024, Member Of The Politburo Of The Communist Party Of India (Marxist) 10 January 1992 - 12 September 2024, Member Of Parliament, Rajya Sabha 19 August 2005 - 18 August 2017

Sitaram Yechury BIOGRAPHY

Last Updated : 19 Jan 2025
CPI(M) general secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury passed away on September 12 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, where he was admitted on August 19 with pneumonia. He was 72. ...

Sitaram Yechury PERSONAL LIFE

Spouse Seema Chishti
Education Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA), St. Stephen's College (BA)

POSITIONS HELD BY Sitaram Yechury

Position Tenure
Member of Rajya Sabha 19 August 2005 - 18 August 2017

SITARAM YECHURY NEWS

NPAs are big scam, says Sitaram Yechury

November 17, 2016 6:36 pm

Yechury said that RBI guidelines" to prove Jaitley's observation on NPAs wrong and said there is a clear RBI guidelines on performing assets becoming NPAs.

Yechury: What is the use of new currency when nobody is accepting it

November 14, 2016 3:52 pm

Yechury questioned if demonetisation will serve its stated purpose of dealing a blow to terror funding as, he said, "no one carries bags to fund terrorism, it is more via online transfers".

Yechury demands action against BJP-linked group for 'brazenly misusing' govt offices

June 15, 2016 9:40 pm

Sitaram Yechury had earlier raised objections to the outfit, Overseas Friends of BJP, Malaysia, making such a declaration through a poster and written to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.

Yechury seeks probe on Malaysia based outfit's alleged claim of having govt support

June 12, 2016 9:33 am

The poster, Yechury said, declares the organisation's June 19 event is being supported by High Commission of India, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Ayush and Indian Council of Cultural Relations.

Comrade Sitaram Yechury’s historic blunder

May 21, 2016 8:42 am

CPI went into terminal decline when it compromised with the Congress in 1969-1970. In 2016, CPM is being destroyed because it abandoned principle in search of a cheap return ticket to power.

CPM: Kerala can’t paper over Bengal cracks

May 20, 2016 6:10 am

Within hours of the debacle, the Sitaram Yechury-Prakash Karat fault line in the CPM deepened with Karat making clear that the electoral tie-up in West Bengal was “their tactics” and did not have approval of the the party central leadership.

West Bengal elections 2016: CPM red-faced, ‘analyses results’

May 20, 2016 3:00 am

In the 2011 elections, TMC had a 39 per cent vote share — as did the combined vote shares of the Congress and Left.

Poll clashes: CPI(M) won’t succumb to TMC’s politics of terror, says Yechury

April 24, 2016 2:39 am

On the Narada sting operation, Yechury alleged that it could not have happened without the patronisation of the party leadership.

West Bengal: Take tangible action, Sitaram Yechury writes to EC

April 23, 2016 1:33 am

Yechury wrote to the poll panel registering “strong condemnation over the continued violence, terror and intimidation unleashed by the ruling Trinamool Congress party in West Bengal”.

Sitaram Yechury, Sharad Yadav to address joint rally for JD(U) nominee today

April 13, 2016 12:35 am

The rally would be organised at Shibpur off GT Road near Aloka Cinema Hall at 6 pm.

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