15 Facts About Sitaram Yechuri

Sitaram Yechuri is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India, the largest communist party in India.

Sitaram Yechuri Yechury was born on 12 August 1952 in an Andhra Telugu-speaking family of Madras.

Sitaram Yechuri grew up in Hyderabad and studied at All Saints High School, Hyderabad till his tenth standard.

Sitaram Yechuri joined Presidents Estate School, New Delhi and achieved the All-India first rank in the Central Board of Secondary Education Higher Secondary Examination.

Sitaram Yechuri went underground for some time, organising resistance to the Emergency, before his arrest.

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Sitaram Yechuri was the first president of SFI who was not from Kerala or Bengal.

Sitaram Yechuri was then elected to the Politburo at the Fourteenth Congress in 1992 and as the fifth General Secretary of CPI at the party's 21st party Congress in Visakhapatnam on 19 April 2015.

Sitaram Yechuri succeeded Prakash Karat, who had held the post for three consecutive terms, from 2005 to 2015.

Sitaram Yechuri was again re-elected as General Secretary of CPI at the 22nd Party Congress held at Hyderabad during 18 April 2018 to 22 April 2018.

Sitaram Yechuri worked with P Chidambaram to draft the common minimum programme for the United Front government in 1996 and had actively pursued the coalition-building process during the formation of the United Progressive Alliance government in 2004.

Sitaram Yechuri has edited party's fortnightly newspaper People's Democracy for the past 20 years.

Sitaram Yechuri is known for bringing several popular issues to the notice of parliament and for raising questions on important issues.

Sitaram Yechuri criticised the visit of the US president Barack Obama on Republic Day.

Sitaram Yechuri was married before, to Vina Mazumdar's daughter and has a daughter and a son from this marriage.

Sitaram Yechuri's daughter, Akhila Yechury, is a major in history and teaches at the University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews.