Congress veteran and former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy died early Tuesday morning in Bengaluru. He was 80.
The news was shared by his son, Congress leader Chandy Oommen on Facebook at 4.30 am, who wrote: “Appa has passed away.”
The deceased leader had been ailing since 2019, and was under treatment in Berlin’s Charite Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram’s NIMS Medicity and Bengaluru’s Health Care Global Enterprises over the course of the past year.
His body will be brought to Thiruvananthapuram by a special aircraft. It will be taken to the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee office in the state capital and then to the Durbar Hall in the Secretariat for the public to pay their last respects.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan condoled Chandy’s death, saying, “It is extremely difficult to bid him farewell.”
“We were elected to the Legislative Assembly in the same year. It was at the same stage that we came to the political fore through student life. We led public life at the same time and it is extremely difficult to bid him farewell. Oommen Chandy was a capable administrator and a person who was closely involved in people’s lives,”