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The Kerala Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) paid tributes to senior CPI(M) person and Koyilandy MLA Kanathil Jameela who passed distant precocious past year.
Speaker A.N. Shamseer, who work retired the obituary reference, described Jameela arsenic a person who consistently took uncompromising, people-centric positions connected nationalist issues and was known for her steadfast interventions successful the Assembly, particularly connected matters concerning women and marginalised sections. She was besides an progressive beingness successful taste forums and consistently upheld values of communal harmony and humanism.
As an MLA, she persistently raised issues related to coastal improvement and livelihood concerns of her constituency. Among her astir notable contributions was the Sneha Sparsham task for kidney patients, launched during her tenure arsenic Kozhikode territory panchayat president, which received planetary attraction for its compassionate attack and important alleviation to mediocre patients, particularly women. She besides played a important relation successful strengthening the Kudumbashree question successful Kozhikode, the Speaker said.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan reminisced that Jameela ever stood firmly with the oppressed and marginalised sections. She was wide recognised arsenic a dedicated legislator, a beardown organiser, an effectual orator and a committed enactment campaigner.
Even during periods of illness, helium recalled, the precocious MLA remained actively engaged successful nationalist affairs, and strived to intervene successful issues and find solutions without ever displaying the load of her wellness condition. With assurance and determination, she continued to enactment successful nationalist programmes, starring galore to judge that she would soon instrumentality with renewed vigor to nationalist service. Her untimely passing, however, has near everyone successful heavy grief.
Senior Congress legislator K. Babu, who spoke connected behalf of Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan, said Jameela was among the uncommon leaders who had the accidental to service astatine each 3 tiers of the Panchayati Raj system. She was a salient pistillate legislator from the Malabar portion and a notable typical of number communities, helium said.
He highlighted that she consistently demonstrated a beardown antiauthoritarian consciousness and a steadfast committedness to secular values during her tenure successful the Assembly.
