Thousands pay tribute to veteran Indian communist leader

Thousands are pushing their respect for the veteran Indian Communist leader against Achuthanandan, whose funeral will be held on Wednesday.

VS, as popularly known, died on Monday at the age of 101. He was a founding member of the largest communist party in India and former Prime Minister in the southern state of Kerala.

Tens of thousands of people collected the streets to honor the politician, who is widely considered one of the most influential figures in Kerala’s political history.

Achuthanandan was forced to get rid of school as a child, overcome poverty and torture in the police custody to become one of the most beloved state leaders.

He was treated at a hospital in therofananathaburam after he was stroked last month. His funeral will be held near his hometown in the Alappuzha area with full honors of the country.

“The fighting for the rights of the oppressed and the exploiters was the guideline of his life,” what is the Master of Bibi, the Secretary -General of the Achuthanandan Party, the Communist Party in India (Marxist) or the consumer price index (M), books Honoring. He described the leader as “an example of the struggle.”

The Prime Minister of Kerala Pinarai Vegayan also described the consumer price index (M), Achuthanandan as an “unlimited warehouse for inspiration and lessons.”

Regardless of being the Prime Minister of Kerala, Achuthanandan was the leader of the state three times and a member of the Political Bureau (M) for a basic reward for the consumer price index for 23 years.

The popularity of Achuthanandan among the Indian competitors only from Jyoti Basu, Prime Minister of Western Bengal and the co -founder of the Consumer Prices Index (M).

But unlike BASU, the learner in London, Achuthanandan came from modest roots and did not finish from school. While Passo formed his legacy in power, Achuthanandan thus from the streets, defending people’s issues as opposition leader.

Achuthanandan began the work of young people after he lost his mother at the fourth of his father at the age of eleven. Teenage in the COIR factory, he joined the 17 -year -old Communist Party and began organizing agricultural workers in Travancore, British India at the time.

Ak Anthony, former Prime Minister of Kerala, said that as a school student in the 1960s, he was waiting next to the Badi fields to listen to the sermons of Achuthanandan.

It quoted Al -Hindus newspaper: “The life and conflicts of Achuthanandan, torture and beatings that it carries at the forefront of the communist incitement of the agricultural workers who are worshiped in Kotanad are unequal and historical.”

Achuthanandan led the 1946 revolution against the state authorities, in which hundreds of Communists were said. He went underground, was arrested later, tortured in reservation, and spent five years in prison.

His work has extended work rights, land rights, education, women’s right, anti -corruption and environmental protection.

Achuthanandan was not a strong Communist, he was not afraid of challenging his party – especially when he met the TP Chandrasekharan, who was killed in 2012 by a gang that included former CPI colleagues (M) after separating from his party.

After the general strikes (M) forced her attempts to design it in 2006 and 2011, Achuthanandan held the position of Prime Minister of Kerala State (2006-2011) before he retired from public life after the 2019 strike and lived with his son in therofnananthporam.

Follow BBC News India Instagramand YouTubeTwitter and Facebook.