Kannur District Congress Committee (DCC) acting president P.K. Vijayaraghavan died at a private hospital in Mangalore on Wednesday morning. He was 73.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan died at the hospital where he had been undergoing treatment after he suffered a stroke. The funeral would be held at the Payyambalam crematorium here at 11 a.m. on March 29.
The body would be kept at the DCC office here at 10 a.m. on Thursday for the public to pay homage. An all-party condolence meeting would be held after the cremation.
A release issued by the DCC said party leaders, including Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee office-bearers, would attend the cremation.
Mr. Vijayaraghavan had been nominated as DCC president-in-charge on November 16 last year to occupy the post left vacant by the resignation of P. Ramakrishnan following his public dispute with the camp of loyalists of K. Sudhakaran, MP, in the party.
He was known as a loyalist of Mr. Sudhakaran. A schoolteacher at his native village of Kadambur here, he had entered the political arena through the teachers' union.
A district office-bearer of what was known as the Syndicate Congress in 1969, he returned to the Congress in 1974. He had also served as the district secretary and State committee member of the Kerala Aided Private Teachers' Union.
DCC secretary since 2002, he had been the DCC vice-president since 2008 till he took charge as the DCC president. He had also served as member of the Edakkad block panchayat. He had also been a co-operator.
The DCC announced three-day mourning as a mark of respect for the deceased and cancelled all party programmes in the district for three days.
He is survived by wife and two children.
