"Comrade Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, last evening (August 19) due to a chest infection. He is undergoing treatment and his condition is improving," CPI(M) said in a statement on Tuesday.

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