New Delhi: Senior leader and Rajya sabha MP of Communist Party of India (CPI) D Raja will take over as the general secretary of the party after incumbent S Sudhakar Reddy resigned on health grounds, party sources said on Saturday.
The change in leadership came after the party's worst-ever performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The decision was taken in a meeting of the CPI National Council - the party's top decision-making body - which began on Friday.
Raja's name was proposed unanimously by the CPI national secretariat, which met on Thursday and Friday ahead of the National Council meeting, sources said.
The proposal has to be discussed and ratified at the National Council meeting. The party sources said that it was merely a formality.
Seventy-year-old Raja is a member of the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu.
Reddy had taken over as the CPI general secretary in 2012 and is currently serving his third term. He is bowing out two years ahead of the completion of his current three-year term.
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