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Sitaram Yechury of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), was fond of remarking that this was because if the Lok Sabha green-lights any faulty bill, the Rajya Sabha must show it the red light.o)..
Yechury, who was in the Rajya Sabha between 2005 and 2017, did his best to ensure the Upper House of Indias Parliament did this, even if it meant going against the tide..
He rose through the ranks, starting his political career as a student leader at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) -- theres an iconic image of him, then a doctoral student , reading out a charter of demands to Indira Gandhi at the time of the Emergency, demanding her resignation -- and became the CPI(M) chief in 2015..
Yechury was the first non-Congress leader Sonia Gandhi called after she met President APJ Abdul Kalam in May 2004 ahead of the formation of the Congress-led UPA government as she wanted him to set up a meeting with CPI(M) chief Harkishen Singh Surjeet..
But unlike the ideologically rigid Karat, Yechury was against the Left, which had an all-time high of 60 lawmakers in the 543-member Lok Sabha, withdrawing support from the Congress-led government..
