Newsmaker: Sitaram Yechury is rekindling CPI(M) from degeneration

Yechury could play the role Harkishan Singh Surjeet had played in 1996 and 2004 to unify the opposition

Until a few years back, it was usual for the national headquarters of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the AK Gopalan Bhavan in New Delhi to wear a deserted look by 5.30 in the evening. The office would also come alive by 11 am. Such discipline wasn’t just unusual for a national party, but the regimented timetable left party leaders disappointed when they would come visiting from across the country hoping for a freewheeling discussion with the party boss.

Sitaram Yechury, elected the party’s fifth general secretary at its Vishakhapatnam congress in April 2015, brought back to AKG Bhavan