| Yechury will continue; Vijayaraghavan in PB

Kannur: Sitaram Yechury has joined the CPM. Will continue as General Secretary. The 23rd party congress which concluded in Kannur yesterday was giving a third term to Yechury. LDF Convener a. The 17-member Politburo was elected with three newcomers, including Vijayaraghavan, and the 85-member Central Committee with 18 newcomers.

Yechury came to the helm of the CPM at the 21st Party Congress held in 2015 in Visakhapatnam. The Party Congress, which met in Hyderabad in 2018, allowed him to continue. Apart from Yechury, Prakash Karat, Manik Sarkar, Pinarayi Vijayan, B.V. Raghavulu, Brinda Karat, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, M.A. Baby, Suryakanta Mishra, Mohammad Salim, Subhashini Ali, G. Ramakrishnan, Tapan Sen, Nilotpal Basu, A. Vijayaraghavan, Ramachandra Dom and Ashok Dhawale are PB. Members. Dr. Other newcomers to the PB are Ramachandra Dom and Ashok Dhawale. S. Ramachandran Pillai, Biman Bose and Hannan Molla were dropped.

Of the 17 newcomers to the Central Committee, four are from Kerala. Three new women were added; Two are from Kerala and one is from Bengal. The Central Committee has a total of 15 women. P. Rajeev, K.N. Balagopal, P. Satidevi, C.S. And Sujatha are the new Central Committee members from Kerala. S from Kerala. Ramachandran Pillai, Vaikom Vishwan, P. Karunakaran resigned from the Central Committee. A seat on the Central Committee was vacated. M.C. The Party Congress condoled on the death of Josephine.