Senior Congress leader Balanarayanan passes away

K. Balanarayanan, elder Congress person and erstwhile territory president of the United Democratic Front (UDF), passed distant astatine a backstage infirmary astatine Perambra successful Kozhikode territory connected Sunday (May 31, 2026). He was 74.

He hails from Kadiyangad successful Perambra and was an enforcement committee subordinate of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee. He entered governmental beingness done the Kerala Students Union (KSU), the students’ helping of the Congress enactment and had been the territory president of the KSU and the Youth Congress. He besides unsuccessfully contested the Assembly elections from the Vadakara constituency successful 2001. The last rites were held connected his residential premises connected Sunday evening.

He is survived by his woman Hemalatha and girl Sindhu.