GG News Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram /Chennai, 2nd Oct. Senior CPI(M) leader and former Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan died on Saturday night at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, according to party sources. He was 69.
He had been undergoing cancer treatment for some time, they said.
Balakrishnan, a Marxist party polit bureau member, was the CPI(M)’s state secretary from 2015 to 2022.
He was a multiple-term MLA and the Minister of Home and Tourism Affairs in the V S Achuthanandan government from 2006 to 2011.
He resigned as the party’s state secretary in August of this year due to ill health.
In a Facebook post, Kerala Assembly Speaker A N Shamseer shared a photo of the late leader and said, “Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. Adieu Dear Balakrishnetta”.
Due to Balakrishnan’s critical health condition, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan postponed his trip to Europe, which was scheduled to begin on Sunday.
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