Yechury commences new innings as CPI-M general secretary

His name was proposed for the post by outgoing party chief Prakash Karat and veteran leader S Ramachandran Pillai, who was also initially considered a front runner for the post.

Yechury's name had been proposed after party stalwart S Ramachandra Pillai decided to withdraw from the race for the general secretary's post.

The official announcement of Yechury being the general secretary of the CPI (M) was made at the end of the six-day party congress at Visakhapatnam on Sunday.

Yechury told NDTV:  "We will definitely make a turnaround."

Born in  1952 in Chennai, the senior leader had achieved the All-India first rank in the Central Board of Secondary Education Higher Secondary Examination.

After graduating from in Economics at the St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, he had completed his MA in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

However, he did not continue with his  PhD as he was arrested during the Emergency.

Joining the  Students Federation of India (SFI) in 1974, the senior leader had joined the CPI-M.

He was elected to Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in July 2005.

The CPI-M also elected a new Central Committee, which is its highest executive body, of 91 members, besides naming five special invitees and five permanent invitees.

A new 16-member Politburo has also been formed. It includes Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat, Manik Sarkar, P Vijayan, MA Bedi, Suryakant Mishra, AK Padhmanabhan, Mohd Salim, Sitaram Yechury.

Central Committee  Elected at the 21st Congress

1.      Prakash Karat

2.      S. Ramachandran Pillai

3.      Sitaram Yechury

4.      Biman Basu

5.      Manik Sarkar

6.      Pinarayi Vijayan

7.      K. Varadha Rajan

8.      B. V. Raghavulu

9.      Brinda Karat (W)

10.  Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

11.  M. A. Baby

12.  Surjya Kanta Mishra

13.  A. K. Padmanabhan

14.  Paturu Ramayya

15.  T Veerbhadram

16.  Penumalli Madhu

17.  M. A. Gafoor

18.  Sunkara Punyavathi (W)

19.  S. Veeraiah   

20.  Uddhab Barman

21.  Deben Bhattacharyya

22.  Vijoy Kant Thakur

23.  Arun Mehta

24.  Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami

25.  Gopi Kant Bakshi

26.  G. V. Sreerama Reddy

27.  P.K. Gurudasan       

28.  P Karunakaran

29.  P.K.Sreemati (W)

30.  M.C. Josephine (W)

31.  Jayarajan E. P.

32.  Vaikom Viswan

33.  T. M. Thomas Isaac

34.  A. Vijayaraghavan

35.  K. K. Shailaja (W)   

36.  Badal Saroj

37.  Ashok Dhawale

38.  Adam Narasayya Narayan

39.  Charan Singh Virdi

40.  Basu Deo

41.  Amra Ram

42.  T.K. Rangarajan

43.  U. Vasuki (W)

44.  G. Ramakrishnan

45.  Soundara Rajan

46.  K. Balakrishnan

47.  P. Sampath

48.  Aghore Dev Barma

49.  Bijan Dhar

50.  Khagen Das

51.  Badal Choudhury

52.  Baju Ban Riyan

53.  Rama Das (W)

54.  Subhashini Ali (W)

55.  Mohd. Salim

56.  Shyamal Chakraborty

57.  Basu Deb Acharia

58.  Gautam Deb

59.  Madan Ghosh

60.  Mridul De

61.  Dipak Dasgupta

62.  Rekha Goswami (W)

63.  Nripen Choudhury

64.  Hari Singh Kang

65.  V. Srinivasa Rao

66.  Hannan Mollah

67.  Nilotpal Basu

68.  Jogendra Sharma

69.  J.S. Majumdar

70.  K. Hemalata (W)

71.  Tapan Sen

72.  Sudha Sundararaman (W)

73.  Rajendra Sharma

74.  P.M.S. Grewal

New Members

75.  A.K. Balan

76.  Elamaram Kareem

77.  Srideep Bhattacharya

78.  Ramachandra Dome

79.  Minoti Ghosh (W)

80.  Anju Kar (W)

81.  Gautam Das

82.  Awadesh Kumar

83.  Alikishore Patnaik

84.  Ch. Seetha Ramulu

85.  Surender Singh

86.  Omkar Shad

87.  Vijay Mishra

88.  S Debroy

89.  Jagmati Sangwan (W)

90.  Mahendra Singh

91.  Hiralal Yadav

Special Invitees

V.S. Achuthanandan
Mohd. Amin
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Nirupam Sen
Mallu Swarajyam (W)

Permanent Invitees

Rajinder Negi
Sanjay Parate
Muralidharan
Arun Kumar
Vijoo Krishnan

Polit Bureau Elected at the 21st Congress

1.      Sitaram Yechury  (General Secretary)

2.      Prakash Karat

3.      S. Ramachandran Pillai

4.      Biman Basu

5.      Manik Sarkar

6.      Pinarayi Vijayan

7.      B. V. Raghavulu

8.      Brinda Karat (W)

9.      Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

10.  M. A. Baby

11.  Surjya Kanta Mishra

12.  A. K. Padmanabhan

13.  Hannan Mollah

14.  Mohd. Salim

15.  Subhashini Ali (W)

16.  G. Ramakrishnan