Prakash Karat (64) has been elected again CPI(M) general secretary for the third time in a row today at party's 20th Congress, which concluded at Kozhikode.
Prakash was elected as general secretary in 2005 at the New Delhi Congress for the first time and again at Coimbatore conference for the second term.
Over 700 delegates from all States participated in the congress and elected a 15-member politburo.
Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan failed to get reinstated in the politburo while former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been retained.
In a Six-day congress, the matter of poll results was also discussed.
On the conclusion of the congress, Karat announces new Politburo. The new faces in CPI(M) politburo include CITU national president A K Padmanabhan, West Bengal opposition leader Suryakanta Mishra and former Kerala education minister M A Baby.
The 20th party Congress also adopted the organisational and ideological resolutions, besides extensively deliberating on the national and international political situation.
--With Agencies Input--
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