After weeks of uncertainty, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) on Sunday, 22 April, unanimously elected Sitaram Yechury as the party’s general secretary at its 22nd party congress.
His election to the post for the second time was approved by the Left party's newly-elected 95-member central committee.
The 65-year-old leader had taken over as general secretary of the CPI(M) from Prakash Karat at the 21st party congress, which was held in Visakhapatnam in 2015.