KOCHI, May 30 -- M P Veerendrakumar, member of Rajya Sabha and leader of Lok Tantrik Janata Dal breathed his last late Thursday night. The most colourful politician who never compromised on his stance against the Sangh Parivar and the kind of politics practiced by the BJP, was given a State funeral at the sprawling Puliyarmala Estate compound, his ancestral home in Wynadu district.
Veeran , as he was known, was 84 and is survived by his wife and four children. He was also the chairman and managing director of Mathrubhumi, a popular Malayalam daily and owned the satellite news channel by the same time.
The Rajya Sabha member, though shared power in the State in company of the Congress and the CPI(M), stood for socialism, secularism and lib...