Yuva Turk times : Our beloved comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of CPI(M), passed away at AIIMS today. Red Salute to Comrade Sitaram Yechury!” party said in a post on X. The party further said that Yechury’s body will be donated to AIIMS for medical research.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 figure in the Students’ Federation of India (SFI). His political activism during the Emergency (1975-77) further solidified his reputation as a staunch advocate for civil liberties and left-wing ideologies.Yechury served as a Rajya Sabha MP for 12 years, from 2005 to 2017. He assumed the role of the fifth general secretary of the CPI(M) at the 21st party congress in Visakhapatnam on April 19, 2015, succeeding Prakash Karat. He also played a significant role in the joint opposition’s INDIA bloc and was considered one of the political mentors of Congress leader and Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi.