The New Central Committee

The following 77 comrades were elected by the 17th party congress to the new Central Committee. Two more comrades will be co-opted later while, as chairman of the new Central Control Commission, Samar Mukherjee will be the ex-officio member of the Central Committee.

1.Harkishan Singh Surjeet

2.Jyoti Basu

3.E Balanandan

4.E K Nayanar

5.V S Achuthanandan

6.Prakash Karat

7.S Ramachandran Pillai

8.Sitaram Yechury

9.P Ramachandran

10.R Umanath

11.M K Pandhe

12.Biman Basu

13.Anil Biswas

14.Manik Sarkar

15.Pinarayi Vijayan

16.Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

17.Koratala Satyanarayana

18.B V Raghavulu

19.M V Narasimha Reddy

20.P Ramiah

21.T Veerbhadram

22.Heman Das

23.Noorul Huda

24.Udhab Barman

25.Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthi

26.Subodh Roy

27.Joginder Sharma

28.Inderjit Singh

29.Mohar Singh

30.Mohd Yusuf

31.S Suryanarayana Rao

32.T K Ramakrishnan

33.M A Baby

34Paloli Mohd Kutty

35.P R Gurudasan

36.P Karunakaran

37.P K Shrimathi (W)

38.P Sanzgiri

39.Ahilya Rangnekar (W)

40.Ashok Dhawale

41Janardan Pati

42.Balwant Singh

43.Hari Ram Chauhan

44.N Sankariah

45.N Varadarajan

46.K Varadarajan

47.T K Rangarajan

48.Baidyanath Mazumdar

49.Aghore Debarma

50.Ram Sumer Yadav

51.Mohd Amin

52.Biplab Dasgupta

53.Sukomal Sen

54.Hannan Mollah

55.Benoy Konar

56.Chittarbrata Mazumdar

57.Nirupam Sen

58.Somnath Chatterjee

59.Mohd Salim

60.Kanai Banerjee

61.Suneet Chopra

62.Hari Singh Kang

63.Brinda Karat (W)

New Entrants

64.Shyamal Chakravarty

65.Surjo Kanta Mishra

66.Shyamali Gupta (W)

67.Kodiyeri Balakrishnan

68.Josephine (W)

69.Bijon Dhar

70.Jakka Venkiah

71.J S Mazumdar

72.B S Dhakad

73.A Vijayaraghavan

74.W R Varadarajan

75.Pappa Umanath (W)

76.Mallu Swarajyam (W)

77.Subhashini Ali (W)

In its first meeting, the new Central Committee elected the first 17 of these 77 comrades to the Polit Bureau. Surjeet was re-elected general secretary.