Sitaram Yechury
| Sitaram Yechury | |
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| General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
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Assumed office 19 April 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Prakash Karat |
| Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) | |
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Assumed office 19 August, 2011 |
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| Constituency | West Bengal |
| Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
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Assumed office 10 January 1992 |
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12 August 1952 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Spouse(s) | Seema Yechury |
| Alma mater |
St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| Occupation | Politician, social worker, economist, columnist, writer |
Sitaram Yechury (born 12 August 1952) 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). His father Sarveswara Somayajula Yechury was an engineer in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. His mother Kalpakam Yechury was a government officer. He grew up in Hyderabad and studied at All Saints High School, Hyderabad till his tenth standard. The Telangana agitation of 1969 brought him to Delhi. He joined Presidents Estate School, New Delhi and achieved the All-India first rank in the Central Board of Secondary Education Higher Secondary Examination. Subsequently, he studied B.A. (Hons.) in Economics at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi and M.A. in Economics, from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), achieving first class in both. He joined the JNU for a Ph.D. in Economics, which was aborted with his arrest during The Emergency.
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.
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