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00:00Sitaram Yetchury, a brilliant student Sitaram Yetchury excelled in academics.
00:09CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yetchury passed away at the age of 72.
00:14Despite being a brilliant student, his deep commitment to politics led him to jail.
00:20Sitaram Yetchury, born in Chennai Sitaram Yetchury was born on August 12, 1950,
00:27to in Chennai.
00:28He spent his childhood in Hyderabad.
00:33Sitaram Yetchury, early education He completed his 10th standard from All Saints
00:38High School in Hyderabad and topped the All India Senior Secondary Examination from President
00:44Estate School in Delhi.
00:48Sitaram Yetchury, graduated from St. Stephen's.
00:51After 12th, Sitaram did his BA Hans in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and secured
00:57the first position in the annual examination.
01:03Sitaram Yetchury, post-graduation from JNU He then obtained his MA degree in Economics
01:08from Jawaharlal Nehru University, JNU.
01:14Sitaram Yetchury's PhD dream unfulfilled.
01:17After post-graduation from JNU, he enrolled for a PhD, but it remained incomplete due
01:23to his arrest during the emergency in 1975.
01:30Sitaram Yetchury, political career begins He entered politics in 1970, for by joining
01:37the Students' Federation of India, SFI, and became a member of the Communist Party
01:42of India, Marxist CPIM, a year later.
01:47Sitaram Yetchury rose through the ranks.
01:50He became a member of the CPIM's Central Committee in 1984, and his position and stature
01:57in the party continued to grow from 1970, 8th to 1998.
02:07Sitaram Yetchury married twice Sitaram Yetchury was married twice.
02:11His first wife was Indrani Mazumder, while his second wife is Seema Kishti, a journalist
02:16by profession.