: People from all walks of life, including leaders and party workers, paid their last respects to the veteran Communist and leader of the Communist Marxist Party (CMP) M.V. Raghavan who died at the Pariyaram Medical College Hospital here on Sunday.
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy paid homage to the CMP leader at his Burnassery residence when the body was brought there from the Pariyaram Medical College on Sunday evening. Though the body was scheduled to reach the residence at 6 p.m., it was delayed as a large number of people waited to see the body at the Parassinikkadavu Ayurveda College that he had established and at Pappinissery, his native village.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president V.M. Sudheeran, Communist Party of India State secretary Pannian Raveendran, Industries Minister P.K. Kunhalikutty, M.K. Raghavan, MP, Congress leader Raj Mohan Unnithan, Sunny Joseph, MLA, CPI(M) district secretary P. Jayarajan and district Congress president K. Surendran visited the Ayurdveda medical college to pay their last respects to the deceased.
