KOZHIKODE: M A Baby has been selected to the CPM politburo. K K Shailaja Teacher from Kerala has reached the central committee. Two posts have been kept vacant in the 89-member central committee.
15 members were elected to the politburo. Some of them, including state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, S Ramachandhran Pillai, Sitharam Yechuri, Biman Basu, Maniksarkar, Budhadebh Battacharya, K Varadarajan, B V Raghavalu, Nirupam Sen and Brinda Karat were inducted to the politburo. MA Baby, CITU national president AK Pathmanabhan, West Bengal Opposition Leader Surya Kant Mishra are the new faces at the politburo.

Meantime, V S Achuthanandan, who has not been included in the politburo, will continue as the central committee member. He was not included in the politburo considering his age.

Shailaja is the state president of Janadhipadhya Mahila Association and CPM state committee member.