Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India. He was the secretary of the CPI Kerala State Committee from 2015 to 2022.
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He stepped down from the position of state secretary due to failing health. He was the Chief Editor of the Malayalam newspaper Deshabhimani.
Balakrishnan entered politics through the student wing of the CPI(M) in 1970.
He was Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) and its All India Joint Secretary between 1973 and 1979. During the time of the emergency, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was imprisoned under MISA for 16 months.
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Kodiyeri Balakrishnan House: Where Does Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Live?
Senior CPI(M) leader and former Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan died at Apollo Hospital in Chennai on Saturday night, party sources here said. He was 69.
He lived in India.
He had been undergoing treatment for cancer for some time, they said.
A polit bureau member of the Marxist party, Balakrishnan served as the CPI(M)’s state secretary from 2015 to 2022.
A multiple-time MLA, he also served as the Minister of Home and Tourism Affairs in the V S Achuthanandan ministry from 2006 to 2011.
Due to failing health, he stepped down as the party state secretary in August this year.
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