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Prakash Karat was born on 7 February, 1948 in Letpandan, Kachin State, Burma, is an Indian politician (born 1948). Discover Prakash Karat's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 7 February, 1948
Birthday 7 February
Birthplace Letpandan, Kachin State, Burma
Nationality India

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1948

Prakash Karat (born 7 February 1948) is an Indian Communist politician.

Prakash Karat was born in Letpadan, Burma, on 7 February 1948, to a Nair family.

His father worked as a clerk in the Burma Railways, where he had sought employment during the British Raj.

Prakash Karat's family hailed from Elappully, Palakkad, Kerala.

1957

Prakash Karat lived in Palakkad till the age of five before returning to Burma where he lived with his family till the age of nine, when his family left Burma for good in 1957.

Karat studied in the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School in Chennai.

On finishing school, he won the first prize in an all-India essay competition on the Tokyo Olympics.

1964

He was sent on a ten-day visit to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 as a result.

He went to the Madras Christian College as an undergraduate student in economics, winning the prize for best all round student on graduation.

Encouraged by the Scottish theologian Duncan B. Forrester, one of his college professors, he got a scholarship to Britain's University of Edinburgh, for a master's degree in politics.

1970

In 1970 he received an MSc degree from the University of Edinburgh for the thesis "Language and politics in modern India".

At Edinburgh he became active in student politics and met Professor Victor Kiernan, the well-known Marxist historian.

His political activism began with anti-apartheid protests at the university, for which he was rusticated.

The rustication was suspended on good behaviour.

Karat returned to India in 1970 and joined Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

After returning to India in 1970, Karat joined the JNU and thereafter CPIM.

He began working as an aide to the party leader A. K. Gopalan.

1971

He worked as an aide to A.K. Gopalan, the legendary communist leader from Kerala and leader of the CPI(M) group in Parliament from 1971 to 1973, while doing his Ph.D. in JNU.

Karat was one of the founders of the Students Federation of India (SFI), in Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He was involved with student politics and was elected the third president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union.

1974

He also became the second president of the Students Federation of India between 1974 and 1979.

During this period his associates included N. Ram, later editor of The Hindu daily, the radical women's activist Mythili Sivaraman and, less closely, P. Chidambaram, who later became India's finance minister.

1975

He worked underground for one and a half years during the Emergency in India in 1975–76.

He was arrested twice and spent eight days in prison.

He is married to activist-politician Brinda Karat.

They got married on 7 November 1975.

The couple has no children, according to their own wish.

1982

He was the secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1982 to 1985.

1985

Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI(M) in 1985 and became a member of the 'Politburo' in 1992.

Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the PolitBureau in 1992.

The Politburo is the key decision making wing of the party.

1992

Since 1992, Karat has been on the editorial board of CPI(M)'s academic journal, The Marxist.

He is also the managing director of Naya Rasta Publishers, the parent company of Leftword Books.

He is the author of five books.

2005

He was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 2005 to 2015.

He took over as the general secretary of the CPI(M) in 2005 at the 18th Congress of the Party held in Delhi.

During his era the CPI(M) saw a sharp downfall due to his rigid behaviour on party line.

In 2005, he was elected general secretary.

2015

He was succeeded by Sitaram Yechury in 2015 at the 21st Party Congress held in Visakhapatnam.