Kochi/new Delhi, April 7 -- Senior leaders Prakash Karat and Brinda Karat are set to step down from the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), with the party inducting eight new members, as the party looks to regain lost ground ahead of the Kerala elections next year.
The party also elected Mariam Alexander Baby as the general secretary during the 24th party congress of the CPI(M), which is currently underway at Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
An 84-member central committee was elected, including 30 new members. The central committee elected an 18-member Politburo.
Prakash Karat, however, dismissed reports of a generational shift, maintaining that a "new set of leaders have come".
"It is not fully correct to say that a generational...