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Sonia Gandhi, Kapil Sibal, Sharad Pawar pay tributes to Sitaram Yechury: Watch

The mortal remains of CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury were brought to the party office in a casket adorned with flowers on Saturday. The CPM national committee earlier announced that the mortal remains will be kept at the AKG Bhavan from 11 am to 3 pm for public viewing on Saturday. Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, Ajay Maken and Rajeev Shukla, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Kapil Sibal, and AAP leader Manish Sisodia were among leaders who paid last respects to Yechury. #WATCH | Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, Sonia Gandhi pays tribute to CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury at the party office in Delhi.Sitaram Yechury passed away on 12th September at AIIMS, New Delhi. pic.twitter.com/zkRquloo2g — ANI (@ANI) September 14, 2024Leaders including...
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Amiable, articulate & pragmatic communist | India News – Times of India

Sitaram Yechury, who died on Thursday, was party politically a committed communist but in political praxis — to use a term much favoured by Marxist pundits — he favoured pragmatism over dogma. And like many pragmatic politicians of his generation, he was courteous and amiable, qualities that didn’t depend on which side of the aisle his interlocutor belonged to.He was among the few CPM leaders who didn’t ideologically over-analyse whether the party should ally with Congress, earlier identified as communists’ chief adversary, to take on BJP when the latter became a governing party under Vajpayee’s leadership.During the 2024 campaign, he insisted Modi-led BJP should be taken on in state-by-state contests, via alliances. An analysis partly borne out by results. Interestingly, CPM’s ideological...
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Pragmatist who could make or break coalitions: The many facets of CPI(M) stalwart Sitaram Yechury
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Pragmatist who could make or break coalitions: The many facets of CPI(M) stalwart Sitaram Yechury

New Delhi: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, a rare non-dogmatic face of the Indian Left, which continues to punch above its weight despite standing on the edge of a precipice, died Thursday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. The 72-year-old leader was on respiratory support after being admitted for an acute respiratory tract infection. Known for his friendships across the political spectrum, Yechury was serving his third term as the general secretary of the CPI(M). In April 2015, he took over the post from Prakash Karat, who was known for his doctrinaire approach that caused friction within the Left on many pivotal issues ranging from the Indo-US nuclear deal to the party’s alliance with the Congress. Sho...
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Bumble, Indira Gandhi, Elon Musk, Chinese Press: When Sitaram Yechury Bared It All In A Podcast

Sitaram Yechury, veteran leader of CPI(M), passed after a brief hospitalisation on Thursday. Several political leaders cutting across party lines expressed their condolences over the demise of the leader. Yechury was a member of CPM's top decision-making body Politburo for over three decades and was the Rajya Sabha MP from 2005 to 2017.  The leading Communist leader is famously known for standing resolute beside Indira Gandhi after leading a student march in 1977, while he was the President of the Students' Union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Leading a group of students to the prime minister's residence, he had handed her a memorandum seeking her resignation as the JNU chancellor. ALSO READ | Sitaram Yechury Passes Away After Prolonged Battle With Chest Infection In a podcast inter...
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Sitaram Yechury, The CPI-M Giant Who Forced Indira Gandhi To Quit As JNU Chancellor

An alumnus Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sitaram Yechury rose to fame in 1970s after he forced the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to resign as the institution's Chancellor. Gandhi had held on to the post despite losing the Lok Sabha polls after Emergency, and hundreds of JNU students led by their union president Yechury, marched to her residence demanding her resignation. He read out the students' demand, seeking her resignation as JNU Chancellor in her presence as she stood beside him listening. Days later, Gandhi resigned from her post. The Indira Gandhi incident gave wings to his political career as he went on to become the most popular face of his party, the Coomunist Party of India (Marxist). Until now. he was known for being the most popular face in Delhi. Communist Party of India ...
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Video | Sitaram Yechury – “Unrepentant Marxist”, Author and Editor

The CPIM lost one of its staunchest pillars today as Sitaram Yechury, the party's three-time general secretary, strategist, think tank, author and editor of its mouthpiece People's Democracy for over two decades, died at the age of 72 today. The veteran leader had been ailing for some time and was admitted at Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS. He was being treated for acute respiratory tract infection and was on respiratory support.  Over the last five decades, Yechury, a former Rajya Sabha MP from Bengal, left his imprint not just on the CPM but also the national political canvas --- playing an active role in drawing up the Common Minimum Programme for the United Front government in 1996. He was also a key figure in the coalition-building during the formation o...
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Veteran CPM leader Sitaram Yechury passes away | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Veteran CPM leader Sitaram Yechury passed away at the age of 72 after a prolonged illness. The CPM general secretary was in a critical condition and receiving respiratory support at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Yechury was being treated in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for an acute respiratory tract infection.Sitaram Yechury, born on August 12, 1952, in Chennai, was a prominent figure in Indian politics.He had been serving as the General Secretary of the CPI(M) since 2015. Yechury spent his formative years in Hyderabad and Delhi, where his political journey commenced during his college days. He actively participated in student movements, particularly during his time at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where he emerged as a key fi...
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CPI-M Colossus Falls: Sitaram Yechury Passes Away After Prolonged Battle With Chest Infection

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury passed away on Thursday at the age of 72 after suffering respiratory disease. He was undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where he was admitted on August 19. The CPI(M) said that the veteran leader was suffering from a respiratory tract infection which developed complications. He breathed his last at 3.03 pm at AIIMS, New Delhi. "It is with profound grief that we announce the passing away of CPIM General Secretary, our beloved Comrade Sitaram Yechury, at 3.03 pm today, 12th September, at the AIIMS, New Delhi. He was suffering from a respiratory tract infection which developed complications," the party said in a statement. It is with profound grief that we announce the passing away of CPIM ...
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