Sitaram Yechury

                                      SITARAM YECHURY

Image result for sitaram yechury                     Sitaram Yechury  is an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).He was elected as its General Secretary on 19 April 2015. He is a member of the politburo of CPI (M) and the party's Parliamentary group leader. Sitaram Yechury was born on 12 August 1952 in a Telugu speaking  family in Madras (Chennai).
                     Yechury joined the Students Federation of India (SFI) in 1974. A year later, he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist).He was arrested in 1975 during the Emergency while he was still a student at JNU. He was underground for some time, organising resistance to the Emergency, before his arrest. After the Emergency, he was elected as the President of the JNU Students' Union thrice during one year (1977–78). Yechury, along with Prakash Karat, was instrumental in creating an impregnable leftist bastion at JNU. In 1978, he was elected as All-India Joint Secretary of SFI, and went on to become the All India President of SFI. He was the first president of SFI who was not from Kerala or Bengal. He left SFI in 1986. In 1984, he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI(M).Yechury is billed as the true heir to the coalition-building legacy of former general secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet. Yechury worked with P. Chidambaram to draft the common minimum programme for the United Front government in 1996 and had actively pursued the coalition-building process during the formation of the United Progressive Alliance government in 2004.
Image result for sitaram yechury                        Yechury has headed the party's international department and the party used to depute him as fraternal delegate to the party conferences of most socialist countries. A prolific writer, he has authored many books and writes the fortnightly column Left Hand Drive for Hindustan Times, a widely circulated daily. He is continuing as the editor of party organ People's Democracy for the past 20 years.He was elected to Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in July 2005. Yechury is known for bringing several popular issues to the notice of parliament and for raising questions on important issues. On blaming by the ruling party for frequent disruptions in parliament, Yechury said that government cannot escape from its responsibility by blaming the opposition for frequent disruptions. He justifies disruptions in parliament by calling it a legitimate process in a democracy. Yechury is a staunch critic of US foreign policy. He also criticised the visit of the US president Barack Obama on Republic Day.

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