Seven years after his expulsion, veteran Marxist and former lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee is likely to be reinducted into the CPI(M) shortly.
The homecoming of the 86-year-old former MP, who had served 10 terms in lok Sabha, is on the basis of a recommendation by the party’s West Bengal State unit, highly-placed sources in the party said.
The recommendation was under the active consideration of the CPI(M)’s top leadership, they said. For the second time in three weeks, party General Secretary Sitaram Yechury will share dais with Chatterjee at his hometown Bolpur today at a Shantiniketan college function, where the former has spent over `1 crore from his MPlAD funds.