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Sitaram Yechury re-elected CPI (M) chief after Manik Sarkar bows out

Yechury was unanimously re-elected the party general secretary by the new central committee of the party, its highest decision-making body

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Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury (left) and former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar attend the party congress. (Photo: PTI)

Archis Mohan New Delhi
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Sunday re-elected Sitaram Yechury for a second three-year term as party chief.

That Yechury was unanimously re-elected the party general secretary by the new central committee of the party, its highest decision-making body, was received with a sense of relief by delegates who attended the five-day conclave in Hyderabad. There had been fear that a contest might have divided the party.

‘Unity’ was also the leitmotif of Yechury’s speech during the concluding session of the party conclave. “If any message that should go to rank and file and our class enemy is that