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	\| birth_place = [[Letpandan]], [[Kachin State]], Burma		\| birth_place = [[Letpandan]], [[Kachin State]], [[Post-independence Burma (1948–1962)\|Burma]]
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	\| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]		\| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
	\| spouse = {{Marriage\|[[Brinda Karat]]\|1975}}		\| spouse = {{Marriage\|[[Brinda Karat]]\|1975}}
			\| relatives = [[Radhika Roy]] (sister-in-law)
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	He is married to activist-politician [[Brinda Karat]].		He is married to activist-politician [[Brinda Karat]].

	==Communist Party==		==Communist Party of India (Marxist)==
	After returning to India in 1970, Karat joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University and thereafter Communist Party of India (Marxist). He began working as an aide to the party leader [[A. K. Gopalan]]. He was the Secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1982 to 1985. Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the ‘Politburo’ in 1992. He took over as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2005 at the 18th Congress of the Party held in Delhi.		After returning to India in 1970, Karat joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University and thereafter Communist Party of India (Marxist). He began working as an aide to the party leader [[A. K. Gopalan]]. He was the Secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1982 to 1985. Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the ‘Politburo’ in 1992. He took over as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2005 at the 18th Congress of the Party held in Delhi.

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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
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| caption = Prakash Karat
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| predecessor = [[Harkishan Singh Surjeet]]
| successor = [[Sitaram Yechury]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Brinda Karat]]|1975}}
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'''Prakash Karat''' (born 7 February 1948) is an Indian communist politician. He was the General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] from 2005 to 2015.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/holnus/000200804031422.htm | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=Prakash Karat re-elected as CPI(M) general secretary | date=3 April 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://news.indiainfo.com/2008/04/03/0804031704_karat_re-elected_cpi-m_general_secretary.html Karat re-elected CPI-M general secretary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219125122/http://news.indiainfo.com/2008/04/03/0804031704_karat_re-elected_cpi-m_general_secretary.html |date=19 February 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/11cpm.htm|title=Prakash Karat in CPI-M general secretary|website=Rediff}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/1969-telangana-agitation-brought-sitaram-yechury-to-delhi/articleshow/46984164.cms|title=1969 Telangana agitation brought Sitaram Yechury to Delhi|first=Akshaya|last=Mukul|date=20 April 2015|newspaper=The Economic Times}}</ref>

==Education and early career==
Prakash Karat was born in Letpadan, [[Burma]] on 7 February 1948. His father worked as a clerk in the Burma Railways, where he had sought employment during the [[British Raj]].<ref>"Comrade Prakash Karat breaks his silence on Prakash Karat", ''The Indian Express'', 8 Feb. 2008, http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/comrade-prakash-karat-breaks-his-silence-on-prakash-karat/270539/1</ref> Prakash Karat's family hailed from Elappully, [[Palakkad]], [[Kerala]]. 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]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6709112.cms | title=Star-studded 175th b'day for MCC school | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=7 October 2010 | access-date=7 October 2018}}</ref> in Chennai. On finishing school, he won the first prize in an all-India essay competition on the Tokyo Olympics. 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. 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 (academia)|rustication]] was suspended on good behaviour.

Karat returned to India in 1970 and joined [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi. 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. He also became the second President of the Students Federation of India between 1974 to 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. He worked underground for one and a half years during the [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency in India]] in 1975-76. He was arrested twice and spent eight days in prison.

== Personal life ==
He is married to activist-politician [[Brinda Karat]].

==Communist Party==
After returning to India in 1970, Karat joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University and thereafter Communist Party of India (Marxist). He began working as an aide to the party leader [[A. K. Gopalan]]. He was the Secretary of the Delhi State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1982 to 1985. Prakash Karat was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M) in 1985 and became a member of the ‘Politburo’ in 1992. He took over as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 2005 at the 18th Congress of the Party held in Delhi.

==Party Leader==
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. In 2005, he was elected General Secretary.

===Lok Sabha Election Results during tenure of Karat as General Secretary===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;border:1px solid black;background-color:#F4F9FF"
|+ Performance of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Lok Sabha elections
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|[[Lok Sabha]]
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Year
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Lok Sabha <br /> constituencies
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Seats <br /> Contested
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Won
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Net Change <br /> in seats
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Votes
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Votes %
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Change in <br /> vote %
! style="background-color:#99CCFF"|Reference
|-
|-
| align=left|[[15th Lok Sabha|Fifteenth]]
| 2009 || 543 || 82 || 16 || {{decrease}} 27 || 22,219,111 || 5.33% || {{decrease}} 0.33%
|<ref name="ECI2009">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/12_PerformanceOfNationalParties.pdf | title=LS 2009 : Performance of National Parties | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014}}</ref>
|-
| align=left|[[16th Lok Sabha|Sixteenth]]
| 2014 || 543 || 97 || 09 || {{decrease}} 07 || 17,986,773 || 3.24% || {{decrease}} 2.09%
|<ref name="ECI2014">{{cite web | url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/4%20-%20List%20of%20Successful%20Candidates.pdf | title=LS 2014 : List of successful candidates | work=[[Election Commission of India]] | access-date=18 October 2014 | pages=93}}</ref>
|-
|}

==Criticism==
Prakash Karat is known for taking steps far from [[Realpolitik]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Meaninglessness-of-the-Karat-Yechury-debate/articleshow/45001537.cms |title = Meaninglessness of the Karat-Yechury debate | India News - Times of India}}</ref> He led the CPI(M) to withdraw support from [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]] government on the issue of Indo-US Nuclear deal, even siding with the [[BJP]] in the no trust motion. He led expulsion of [[Somnath Chatterjee]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/We-had-no-option-but-expel-Somnath-Karat/articleshow/3273976.cms | title=We had no option but expel Somnath: Karat | India News - Times of India}}</ref> when he refused to resign as [[Speaker of Lok Sabha]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080724/jsp/frontpage/story_9593437.jsp | title=Karat's kangaroo court Somnath expelled in a hurry}}</ref>
These efforts made bitterness to grow and led Congress forging alliance with [[All India Trinamool Congress|TMC]], arch-rival of CPI(M) in West Bengal. This coalition formation is considered as beginning of the end of the 34-year long [[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] rule in [[West Bengal]].
In [[Indian General Election, 2009]] seats of the CPI(M) as well as the Left Front reduced drastically. In West Bengal, Left seats reduced to 15 from 35. In whole India, Lefts became 24 from 59.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/2009-election-results.html |title = 2009 India General (15th Lok Sabha) Elections Results}}</ref>
The CPI(M)and the Left lost [[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal]] and [[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|Kerala]] in Vidhan Sabha elections of 2011.
In the following years, CPI(M) showed no sign of improvement, they even got squeezed to only 9 seats in 2014 Lok Sabha election.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/2014-election-results.html |title = 16th Lok Sabha Election Results 2014, States Wise and Party Wise}}</ref>
Finally, Karat was succeeded by [[Sitaram Yechury]], in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150720/jsp/frontpage/story_32611.jsp#.V6638Vt95dg |title = Burp! We had Karat for lunch}}</ref>

==Academic and political writings==
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.
* ''Language, Nationality and Politics in India'' (1972)
* ''A World to Win''—Essays on the [[Communist Manifesto]] (1999), edited
* ''Across Time and Continents: A tribute to Victor Kiernan'' (2003), edited
* ''Subordinate Ally: The nuclear deal and India-US strategic relations ''(2008)
* ''Politics and policies''(2008)

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