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SITARAM YECHURY

Sitaram Yechury is an Indian politician and one of the communist leaders in the country. He is a senior member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the party's Parliamentary group leader.

Mr Yechury was elected as President of the JNU Students' Union thrice during one year (1977–78). In 1978, he was elected as All India Joint Secretary of SFI, and went on to become the All India President of SFI. In 1984, he was invited to the Central Committee of the CPI(M). He was elected to the Central Committee in the CPI(M) XII Congress in 1985, to the Central Secretariat at the Thirteenth Congress in 1988 and to the Politburo at the Fourteenth Congress in 1992. He was elected to Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in July 2005.

He is one of the most prolific Left writers in the country, having authored many books. His book, Saffron Brigade written after the demolition of Babri Masjid is a best-selling Left work. An avid writer, he is a columnist with Hindustan Times, a widely circulated daily.

A widely travelled person, Yechury is one of the few Indian leaders to have met legendary figures like Fidel Castro, Yasir Arafat and Nelson Mandela more than once. He has the rare distinction of having addressed the British parliament and top British and American universities as a communist leader. Recently, he played a pivotal role in convincing the Nepali Maoists to embrace parliamentary democracy.

Yechury completed his M.A., first class, in Economics, from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 1975. Subsequently, he joined JNU for a Ph.D. degree which he could not complete due to his arrest during the Emergency.

 
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