Prakash Karat was born on 7 February 1948 and is an Indian Communist politician.
19 Facts About Prakash Karat
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Prakash Karat was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India from 2005 to 2015.
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Prakash Karat was born in Letpadan, Burma, on 7 February 1948.
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Prakash Karat's father worked as a clerk in the Burma Railways, where he had sought employment during the British Raj.
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Prakash Karat lived in Palakkad till the age of five before returning to Burma where he lived with his family till the age of nine, when his family left Burma for good in 1957.
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Prakash Karat was sent on a ten-day visit to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 as a result.
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Prakash Karat went to the Madras Christian College as an undergraduate student in economics, winning the prize for best all round student on graduation.
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Prakash Karat returned to India in 1970 and joined Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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Prakash Karat was one of the founders of the Students Federation of India, in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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Prakash Karat was involved with student politics and was elected the third president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union.
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Prakash Karat became the second president of the Students Federation of India between 1974 and 1979.
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Prakash Karat was arrested twice and spent eight days in prison.
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Prakash Karat was the secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the CPI from 1982 to 1985.
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Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI in 1985 and became a member of the 'Politburo' in 1992.
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Prakash Karat took over as the general secretary of the Communist Party of India in 2005 at the 18th Congress of the Party held in Delhi.
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Prakash Karat was succeeded by Sitaram Yechury in 2015 at the 21st Party Congress held in Visakhapatnam.
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Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI in 1985 and became a member of the PolitBureau in 1992.
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Since 1992, Prakash Karat has been on the editorial board of CPI's academic journal, The Marxist.
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Prakash Karat is the managing director of Naya Rasta Publishers, the parent company of Leftword Books.