CPM state committee to organize condolence meeting for V S Achuthanandan at Kanakakunnu
: CPM state committee will be organising a condolence meeting for former chief minister V S Achuthanandan at 4pm on Friday at Kanakakunnu.
"It will be a fitting tribute to V S Achuthanandan, who served in various roles for over six and a half decades," said CPM state committee in a statement.
Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the commemorative meeting which will be attended by CPM state secretary M V Govindan, opposition leader V D Satheesan, opposition deputy leader P K Kunhalikutty, CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam and KPCC president Sunny Joseph.
Major archbishop of Syro-Malankara church cardinal Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, Latin church Thiruvananthapuram archdiocese archbishop Thomas J Netto, Palayam imam V P Suhaib Maulavi, Sree Narayana Dharma Sangham Trust general secretary Swami Subhangananda, Malankara Orthodox Syrian church metropolitan Gabriel Mar Gregorios, Kozhikode archdiocese metropolitan Varghese Chakkalakal, Santhigiri ashram general secretary Swami Gururatnam Jnana Tapaswi, bishop commissioner pastoral board secretary J Jayaraj, bishop Mathews Mor Silvanus (Believers Church), among others, will also attend.
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