Suravaram to helm CPI again

Kollam: Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy was unanimously re-elected general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Sunday for a third time in a row while former JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar found a place in the national council.

Ahead of Reddy's unanimous election at the 23rd party congress in Kollam, a 125-member national council was also elected. It included Kanhaiya Kumar, a former president of the JNU Students Union who was at one time jailed after being charged with sedition. Reddy, a two-time former Lok Sabha member, first became the general secretary in 2012.