CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury is admitted in the ICU of Delhi AIIMS. His condition is said to be ‘serious but stable’. Sources said that he needs oxygen support and a whole team of doctors is monitoring his condition. The CPI(M) had said in a statement on Tuesday that the 72-year-old leader is being treated in the ICU of AIIMS. He is suffering from acute respiratory tract infection. He was admitted to the ICU of AIIMS on August 19.
In a post on Twitter (formerly Twitter), his party said, “Comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), is in the ICU of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, where he is being treated for acute respiratory tract infection.”
Meanwhile, leaders and the public are sending their best wishes for his speedy recovery. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has wished Yechury a speedy recovery. On August 22, Yechury shared a 6-minute video on Platform X (formerly Twitter), in which he talked about the demise of former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
Born in a Telugu-speaking Brahmin family
Sitaram Yechury was born on 12 August 1952 in Madras (Chennai) in a Telugu-speaking Brahmin family. His father Sarveshwar Somayajula Yechury was an engineer in the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. His mother Kalpakam Yechury was a government official.
Yechury attended the President’s Estate School, New Delhi and secured the All India First Rank in the Central Board of Secondary Education Higher Secondary Examination. He then studied BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and then MA Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was arrested during the Emergency while a student at JNU.
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