Sitaram Yechury elected CPI(M) General Secy for second term
Sitaram Yechury on Sunday was unanimously elected as the General Secretary of CPI(M) for his second term. His election was approved by the party's newly-elected 95-member central committee during the 22nd Party Congress in Hyderabad. Yechury had taken over as General Secretary from Prakash Karat in the 21st Party Congress in 2015.