Baby Chakraborty, Kolkata:- CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said goodbye to left politics. He was 72 years old. The veteran politician was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi on August 19 with lung infection and fever. He was kept in ICU from the beginning. His condition further deteriorated from Monday. Finally, this veteran leader breathed his last on Thursday afternoon.
Since August 19, the senior CPIM leader was admitted to AIIMS due to physical ailments. He was put on respiratory support since last Monday due to breathing problems due to lung infection. After 25 days of struggle, this prominent leftist leader of Indian politics finally passed away. Sitaram Yechury was born in 1952 in a Telugu Brahmin family in what was then Madras (Chennai). He holds a BA in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
He was involved in leftist politics from his student life. Elected president of JNU student union three times. Sitaram was arrested while a student at JNU during the 1975 Emergency. That year he became a member of the Communist Party of India. On April 19, 2015, Sitaram took over as the All India General Secretary of the CPM. He was performing that duty for the last 9 years. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2005 to 2017. The news of his death has cast a shadow of mourning among the communist parties of the country. Other political parties have also expressed deep grief over the demise of the late Left leader.
