No third term for Yechury in RS

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury will not return to Rajya Sabha for a third term after party's Central Committee (CC) on Tuesday rejected a demand to get him elected from West Bengal with the support of Congress.

Four hours of acrimonious discussion in Central Committee and subsequent voting exposed deep fissures in the party after Bengal unit vociferously brought the issue to CC



even as Polit Bureau (PB) twice rejected the proposal.

While around 45-50 CC members "raised their hands" against fielding Yechury in the Rajya Sabha polls during an unprecedented voting, around 25-30 supported the idea after Bengal leaders argued that if they do not use this opportunity, the party would go unrepresented in Rajya Sabha from West Bengal after three years.