Development of embryogenic cultures having high regeneration efficiency from important, commercial varieties of banana is a prerequisite for genetic manipulation and for in vitro propagation. In the present study, we have studied the induction of somatic embryogenesis from young immature male inflorescences of the banana cultivar Lal Kela (red banana) on M2 medium (Ma et al., 1991) supplemented with 2,4-D. Cell suspension cultures initiated from this callus exhibited embryogenic stages. Somatic embryos developed into plantlets on / strength MS basal medium with 100 mg l-1 ME + 0.1% AC and 0.2% gelrite. Plants regenerated through somatic embryogenesis showed minor variation when assessed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and sequence characterized amplified regions (SCAR) markers.