AGARTALA, Aug 9 (TIWN): CPI-M National General Secretary Sitaram Yechury has been detained at Jammu and Kashmir but was reportedly detained.

CPI-M has condemned the action of the BJP Govt.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the statement, “The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the detention of Sitaram Yechury General Secretary of the Party and D Raja, General Secretary of the CPI at the Srinagar airport. This shows the authoritarian face of the BJP government.Sitaram Yechury and D Raja had gone to Srinagar to visit Md Tarigami, MLA, the ailing leader of the CPI(M) and to meet the people of J&K.The Polit Bureau calls upon the people to protest this anti-democratic act of the BJP government”.