Truce in CPI(M) after Yechury camp wins current round

Yechury found support not just from delegates from north Indian states, but also some of the delegates from Tamil Nadu and Kerala

After weeks of debate between party chief Sitaram Yechury and his predecessor Prakash Karat over their party's political tactics for the next three years, there were on Monday indications of a rapproachment within the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The truce came in the wake of a show of strength from Yechury that the rival camp had not anticipated.

Of the 63 who attended the central committee meeting here in New Delhi, 32 supported Karat. The former party chief wants CPI (M) to persist with its 2015 political resolution, which had identified the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the party's principal enemy,