Sitaram Yechury, a prominent Indian politician is
the general Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who died on
12th September 2024 at the age of 72. Yechury, who was staggered with a chronic
respiratory disorder for the past few years, was admitted to the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi in August 2024 with complications of
pneumonia of whom he breathed his last. Thus, Yechury’s death symbolises the
culmination of a major political epoch in India as he was an active politician
who was always against the central government.
Sitaram Yechury was born in 1952; he was a student
politic activist and has right from his political activism, been a militant of
the left-wing in India. Of particular interest was his defense of workmen and a
clear hard-core Marxist principle as a worker. He rose to this position in the
CPI(M), made him a prominent persons in the party and his contributions where
he among the key policy makers in the party serving as the General Secretary of
the party at one time.
Later in 2005 Yechury was elected as Member of
Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the Indian Upper House of Parliament from West
Bengal. He remained in this capacity up to the year 2017 wherein he became more
vociferous on various matters of concern including labourrelation and foreign
politics among others. He was particularly famous in giving fluent speeches as
well as in mediating between different factions of the opposition in the
Parliament.
However; Yechury was not without controversy. In
2020, during Delhi riots he and activist Yogendra Yadav were named in a
supplementary chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police for being accused of
fanning violence during protest. Yechury categorically denied the charges
describing it as political vendetta by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
He said that the charges were politically motivated as BJP government was
targeting opposition parties. Still, these accusations did not reduce Yechury’s
authority in Indian politics – the man loyal to his principles.
Yechury’s
health deteriorated in early August 2024 when he was admitted at the AIIMS
Delhi hospital due to pneumonia like chest infection. His condition
deteriorated in September, then he was put on a mechanical ventilator. However,
despite all the caregivers’ attempts, Yechury succumbed to death on September
12, 2024.
Like
me, Yechury had been a firm believer in giving back to society and so in a way
of servicing society even in his last moments, the body was thereafter handed
over to AIIMS Delhi for medical teaching and research purposes.
A
bitter fact is that Sitaram Yechury passed away, thus people lost one of the
most prominent political leaders of the Indian Left. He was loyal to Marxism to
his death raising campaign for the poor and the defenceless in the society.
Yechury was the leading light in the CPI(M) and his passing will be greatly
felt in the political domain in India more so by the political players in the
country.
A
part of Yechury’s legacy in Indian politics includes the concerns he championed
such as those of the workers and social justice.
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