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Maniyankode Padmaprabha Veerendra Kumar (15 August 1937 — 28 May 2020) was an Indian politician, writer and journalist, who was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He was a member of the Loktantrik Janata Dal political party and president of the Kerala state branch of the party. He was also the chairman and managing director of the Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi.
Life
Veerendra Kumar was born on 15 August 1937 to Marudevi Avva and M. K. Padmaprabha Goudar, a leader of Socialist Party and former MLA, in Kalpetta. The eldest of their eight children, he had six younger sisters and a younger brother. After schooling in Kalpetta and Kozhikode, he did his master's in philosophy from the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College.
As a politician, he was treasurer and a national committee member of the former Samyukta Socialist Party, state secretary of the Kerala Unit of the Socialist Party, one of the all India secretaries of the former Socialist Party, convener of the Opposition Co-ordination Committee in Kerala, vice president of the former Janata Party, and its president. He was arrested during The Emergency. From 1987–91 he was a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Later, in 1996 he was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Kozhikode constituency and functioned as Minister of state for Labour and later Finance.
He died on 28 May 2020 due to cardiac arrest at Kozhikode in Kerala.[1] he is jain by religion
Publications
His works as an author include:
- Samanwayathinte Vasantham
- Buddhante Chiri
- Gattum Kanacharadukalum
- Atmavilekkoru Theerthayathra
- Prathibhayute Verukal Thedi
- Changampuzha: Vidhiyute Vettamrigam
- Thirinjhunokkumbol
- Lokavyapara Samkhadanayum Oorakkudukkukalum (Gattinu Seshamulla Oranweshanam)
- Roshathinte Vithukal
- Adhinivesathinte Adiyozhukukal
- Hymavathabhoovil
- Ramantedhukkam
- Vivekanandan: Sanyasiyum Manushyanum
Awards
- V. R. Krishnan Ezhuthachan Janmasadabdi Award (2009)[2]
- Kendra Sahitya Academy Award (2010) - for Haimavatha bhoovil[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.deshabhimani.com/news/kerala/news-national-28-05-2020/873941
- ↑ Minister calls for schemes to promote khadi. The Hindu online(14 May 2009). Retrieved 17 February 2018.
- ↑ Veerendra Kumar, Nanjil Nadan among Sahitya Akademi winners. The Hindu(21 December 2010). Retrieved 25 April 2014.
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