Communist Party of India general secretary Sitaram Yechury, who passed away in Delhi on Thursday left an indelible mark in West Bengal politics by bringing two politically divergent forces the Left parties and the Congress together, on one platform, to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool Congress. The 2016 Assembly polls in West Bengal witnessed an electoral understanding between …
Communist Party of India general secretary Sitaram Yechury has been at the forefront of coalition efforts since the mid-1990s. The biggest party in the INDIA bloc, the Congress, has had a rather disappointing track record in direct contests with the BJP. Have you ever seen under a secular democratic republic, the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Government of …
On April 10, Sitaram Yechury got re-elected as general secretary of the Communist Party of India, for the third time in a row, at the party congress in Kannur. These included the importance of Yechury’s skills in building bridges with other secular parties, especially in the context of raising a viable opposition to the blatantly authoritarian Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata …
