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Leaders cutting crossed governmental lines paid glowing tributes to elder Congress person and erstwhile Union Minister K.P. Unnikrishnan, who passed distant present connected Tuesday greeting (March 3).
Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, wrote connected Facebook: “I americium profoundly saddened by the passing of K.P. Unnikrishnan, a elder Congress person and erstwhile Union Minister. He devoted his beingness to nationalist work with committedness and integrity. My heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and the radical of Kerala. He volition beryllium remembered with respect.”
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said successful a connection that Mr. Unnikrishnan was a staunch spokesperson of secular authorities who tried to clasp Nehruvian values successful the Congress party. Mr. Vijayan said that Mr. Unnikrishnan was besides opposed to the Sangh Parivar’s Hindutva authorities and recalled his predetermination triumph from Vadakara successful 1991 against a communal campaigner of the Congress and the BJP.
V.D. Satheesan, Opposition leader, said that Mr. Unnikrishnan was ever aligned with the socialist watercourse of thought, who was besides a well-known journalist, orator, and writer.
M.V. Govindan, State caput of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said that Mr. Unnikrishnan had played a cardinal relation successful the evacuation of 1.5 lakh Indians during the Gulf war, erstwhile helium was a Union Minister. His demise is happening astatine a clip erstwhile West Asia is successful the grip of hostility again. Mr. Govindan said that the Indian rulers should emulate his work.
Sunny Joseph, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president, said Mr. Unnikrishnan had focussed connected the improvement of Malabar during his stint arsenic a Union Minister. He utilised his affluent acquisition arsenic a writer erstwhile helium entered Parliament arsenic a Lok Sabha member, Mr. Joseph added.
