"It is upto the West Bengal unit to take a call on the matter. The central leadership will take a decision based on the decision of the West Bengal unit of the party," he told reporters here on the sidelines of a party function.
Yechury, elected CPI(M) General Secretary in April last, was responding to a question whether he would be willing to take back Chatterjee into the party since he (Yechury) had stated he would work to bring back leaders who had left the party in the past.
Chatterjee, a front-ranking CPI(M) leader for decades, was expelled from the party in July, 2008 after the trust vote in Parliament over Indo-US nuclear deal.
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