Karat, ushering in a generational change

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Karat, ushering in a generational change

2009-04-08 20:05:21
Last Updated: 2009-04-08 22:48:32

Prakash Karat, the current General Secretary of the CPI(M) since 2005. was elected to the party Central Committee in 1985 and became a member of the Politburo in 1992. Some analysts claim that Karat ushers in a new generational change within the CPI (M).

He graduated with a gold medal and won a scholarship to Britain%u2019s University of Edinburgh, for a Masters degree in politics.

It was at Edinburgh that he met with Professor Victor Kiernan, the famed Marxist and became a strident communist. His political activism began with anti-apartheid protests at the University, for which he was expelled.

Karat returned to India in 1970 and joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was one of the founders of the Students Federation of India (SFI), the CPI-Ms student wing, in Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also became the first President of the Students Federation of India between 1974 to 1979.

He worked underground for one and a half years during the Emergency in India in 1975-76. He was arrested twice and spent eight days in prison.

Since 1992, Karat has been on the editorial board of CPI(M)'s academic journal, The Marxist. He is also the managing director of Leftword. He is the author of three books.

Courtesy: Wikipedia

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