Sitaram Yechury invited to Columbia

CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury, who is also in charge of the party’s external affairs wing, left for the US on Monday. The official purpose of the visit is to deliver a lecture on ‘Future of Communism in India’ at Columbia University.

Party sources said  Yechury will highlight how the extreme-right and extreme-left forces in Bengal are making attempts to disrupt law and order, hampering development. A CPI(M) leader said: “After the LS poll debacle, the global community started believing in the so-called misrule by Left in Bengal. It is necessary to explain.”