New Delhi, Sept 12: CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury passed away at AIIMS Delhi on Thursday at 3:03 PM. The 72-year-old was on respiratory support, as reported by the party earlier this week.
Yechury was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on August 19, where he was being treated for an acute respiratory tract infection in the ICU. A multi-disciplinary team of doctors had been closely monitoring his condition after it worsened on Tuesday morning.
Born on August 12, 1952, in Chennai to a Telugu-speaking family, Yechury had been a member of the CPI(M) Politburo since 1992. He served as a three-time Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal and began his political career at 22 when he joined the Students' Federation of India (SFI) in 1974. An alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Yechury was also arrested during the Emergency and was elected President of the JNU Students' Union three times within a year.
