Tag: CPM leader Sitaram Yechury dies

Veteran Left leader and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury died this afternoon. He was 72 and was undergoing treatment for pneumonia at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The CPM leader was admitted to the emergency ward of AIIMS on August 19 and later shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Source link…

The CPIM lost one of its staunchest pillars today as Sitaram Yechury, the party’s three-time general secretary, strategist, think tank, author and editor of its mouthpiece People’s Democracy for over two decades, died at the age of 72 today. The veteran leader had been ailing for some time and was admitted at Delhi’s All-India Institute…