He is re-elected for another three years. In 2015, Sitaram Yechury was first elected as the CPI-M General Secretary.
On the last day of the party's 22nd Congress, his re-election took place. CPI-M leader and former Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar informed that Yechury was elected by a 95-member new Central Committee.
CPI-M also elected a 17-member new Politburo.