Leaders of communist outfits on Sunday welcomed CPI(M) Rajya Sabha Parliamentarian Sitaram Yechury’s election as his party’s General Secretary, hoping the move will help strengthen the Left movement in the country.
Terming 62-year-old Mr. Yechury as a “dynamic” leader, they said his experience, both inside Parliament and outside it, will help the CPI(M) implement party programme effectively and that the Left parties will be more active now.
“I congratulate him for getting elected unanimously as the (General) Secretary. I know comrade Yechury for the last few decades and I hope under his leadership, the Left parties can work more unitedly.
“Yechury is a dynamic comrade, a good Parliamentarian.
Naturally, the parties will become more active having joint activities and all that,” CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said.
General Secretary of the All India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas, shared similar views welcoming the CPI (M)’s decision.
“I welcome his election. He is a young, energetic and dynamic leader. Yechury is a new generation leader. He has enough experience,” Mr. Biswas said.
Mr. Biswas though advised leaders of Left parties to take up social issues concerning people and in languages “they can understand” to ensure growth in the movement.
“The whole problem with Left movement is it dealt with economic issues only. In India, in the Hindi belt, social aspect is very important. That ground is there to capture. The Left should take up the social issues and in the language of people,” he said.
Welcoming Mr. Yechury’s election to the top post of CPI(M), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Abani Roy said, “this would strengthen the Left community and movement against communalism and anti-people economic policies of the government.”
Mr. Yechury was unanimously elected the new General Secretary of the party on Sunday on the last day of CPI’s (M) 21st Congress in Visakhapatnam. His name for the post was proposed by outgoing General Secretary Prakash Karat and seconded by senior leader S. Ramachandran Pillai.
The party also elected 91 members of its central committee and also the 16-member Polit Bureau on the concluding day.
