Sitaram Yechury Was Born On 12 August 1952 in a
Telugu speaking family in Madras
(Chennai). His father Sarveswara Somayajula Yechury was An Engineer in the
Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation. His mother Kalpakam Yechury
was a government officer. He grew up in Hyderabad and studied at All Saints
High School, Hyderabad till his tenth standard. The Telangana agitation of 1969
brought him to Delhi. He joined Presidents Estate School, New Delhi and
achieved the All-India first rank in the Central Board of Secondary Education
Higher Secondary Examination. Subsequently, he studied B.A. (Hons.) in
Economics at the St. Stephen's College, Delhi and M.A. in Economics, from
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), achieving first class in both. He joined the
JNU for a Ph.D. in Economics, which was aborted with his arrest during The
Emergency.

Yechury joined the Students Federation of India
(SFI) in 1974. A year later, he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
He was arrested in 1975 during the Emergency while
he was still a student at JNU. He Was Underground for some time, Organising
resistance to the Emergency, before his arrest. After the Emergency, he was
elected as the President of the JNU Students' Union thrice during one year
(1977–78).[citation needed] Yechury, along with Prakash Karat, was instrumental
in creating an impregnable leftist bastion at JNU
Vijayan added that Yechury, being the general
secretary of the CPI(M), would not be able to do justice to his role as
parliamentarian as his party responsibility involves travelling across the
country for party works.
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