Prakash Karat Re-ElECted

Prakash Karat re-elected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) by the 19 th Party Congress. Jyothi Basu will be special invitee to the Politburo and Harkishan Singh Surjeet is to the Central Committee. R Umanath is also not in the newly elected Politburo. He is to be continuing as a member of the Central Committee.
Kerala State Home and Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) General Secretary Mohammed Ameen and West Bengal State Industrial Reconstruction and Rublic Undertakings Minister Nirupam Sen are the new members in the Politburo.
Kerala State Finance Minister Thomas Issac and West Bengal State Housing and Public Health Engineering Minister Gautam Deb are including 17 new members of 87 member Central Committee.
Politburo Members
Prakash Karat
V S Achuthanandan
M K Pandhe
Sitharam Yechuri
Pinarayi Vijayan
S Ramachandran Pillia
Buddhadev Bhattacharya
Brinda Karat
Biman Basu
K Varadarajan
Manik Sarkar
B V Raghavalu
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
Muhammed Ameen
Nirupam Sen