Veteran Left leader and CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury passed away this afternoon at the age of 72. He had been undergoing treatment for respiratory ailments at Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Yechury was admitted to the emergency ward of AIIMS on August 19 and later moved to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). He was reportedly suffering from a pneumonia-like infection, although doctors did not disclose the exact nature of his illness. Yechury had also recently undergone cataract surgery.
A long-standing member of the CPM Politburo, the party’s highest decision-making body, Yechury served in the Rajya Sabha from 2005 to 2017.
