At the meeting of the new Central Committee (CC) on the last day of the party's 21st Congress, outgoing general secretary Prakash Karat proposed Yechury's name and S. Ramchandran Pillai seconded it. The 91-member CC unanimously approved it.

The election of 62-year-old Yechury came after Pillai, who was reportedly in the fray for the top party post, withdrew, ensuring that the party continued its tradition of electing its leader unanimously.

Prakash Karat later made the formal announcement before the media. Yechury, who termed the new task as challenging, introduced the 16-member politburo.

The four new politburo members are Mohammed Saleem, Subhashini Ali, Hannan Mollah and G. Ramakrishnan.

Subhashini Ali is the second woman in the politburo after Brinda Karat.

The politburo members are Sitaram Yechury, Prakash Karat, Brinda Karat, S. Ramchandran Pillai, Biman Basu, Manik Sarkar, Pinyarayi Vijayan, B.V. Raghavulu, K. Balakrishnan, M.A. Baby, S.K. Mishra, A.K. Padmanabhan, Mohammed Saleem, Subhashini Ali, Hannan Mollah and G. Ramakrishnan.

Earlier, the Congress elected the new CC. It approved the names finalised by the outgoing politburo on Saturday night. This was followed by the election of the new politburo and the general secretary by the CC.

Apart from 91 members, the CC has five special invitees and five permanent invitees.

As like prior year's Party Congress meets, CPI-M central leadership deprived Tripura by not inducting important State leaders like Badal Choudhury, Jiten Chaudhury into Politburo.

CPI-M politburo since its inception in India was dominated by Kerala lobby and same repeated in 21st Party Congress too.

Prakash Karat never contested a Parliament or State election in his lifetime, same goes for Sitaram Yechury (Yechury chose Rajya Sabha route to Parliament so that no need to contest Lok Sabha elections)

Highly unpopular and aged leaders dominating  CPI-M's core politics,  so future of the party is none other than complete wipe-out.

By not giving chance to younger generations in Politburo, CPI-M's octagorian leadership pushing party towards destruction.