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Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person and commercialized unionist K.M. Sudhakaran passed distant astatine Kochi successful Kerala connected Sunday (December 28, 2025). He was 90. He was a subordinate of the party’s State committee for 35 years. He had served arsenic the State treasurer of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
He breathed his past astatine a backstage infirmary successful North Paravur, wherever helium was undergoing attraction for age-related ailments, astatine 5.30 successful the morning. Having entered full-time authorities successful 1956 aft quitting his occupation arsenic a toddy tapper pursuing enactment leadership’s instruction, Mr. Sudhakaran went connected to organise the farmers of Vypeen. He had played an progressive relation successful respective movements including the transport onslaught of 1954, the protests for onshore reforms successful 1970 and toddy tappers’ conflict successful 1993.
He was jailed for 16 months during the Emergency. He is survived by wife, J. Prabhavathi, who retired from the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, and children,K.S. Jayashree, Jayan, Jayaraj and Jaisy.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and CPI(M) State caput M.V. Govindan condoled his passing. The State has mislaid a elder revolutionary leader, said the Chief Minister.
Mr. Sudhakaran’s last rites volition beryllium held connected the premises of his location astatine Kalavanpara, Nayarambalam, successful Ernakulam astatine 5.30 pm.
