CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday, 24 January, stuck to his earlier admission that he did offer his resignation in the party's recent Central Committee meet, adding reports stating otherwise were completely untrue.
Yechury insisted that he not only offered to resign in the party's Central Committee meet in Kolkata but also in the politburo meeting in Delhi earlier.
In both the meetings, he was asked to continue with the post, the CPI(M) leader said.
He was asked about former general secretary Prakash Karat's reported remarks denying that Yechury had offered to resign as the party chief after the central committee of the party rejected the draft presented by him at its meeting in Kolkata.