Two days after a resolution was adopted at the West Bengal State committee meeting of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) seeking a third Rajya Sabha term for him, party general secretary Sitaram Yechury said here on Saturday that the party’s decision would be final.
Mr. Yechury is a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal, and his term expires on August 18.
“The norm in our party is that nobody goes into a third term [in the Rajya Sabha]. And I have already stated — there is nothing more to state on that — that, as the general secretary, I will adhere to the norm. But it is the party that will decide,” he said.
The CPI(M) polit bureau has scheduled a two-day meeting on June 6 and 7. On Thursday, the party’s West Bengal State secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra had written to the polit bureau in favour of a third term for Mr. Yechury. The Congress has offered to support Mr. Yechury’s candidature. He is the first from the CPI(M) to be an MP and a party general secretary at the same time.
