PALAKKAD: E Sankaran, former CPM MLA from the Thrithala assembly constituency in Palakkad, died here on Friday. He was 86.
Sankaran was elected from Thrithala in 1991.
The communist leader died in a private hospital in Pattambi on Friday morning. He was suffering from diabetes. He is survived by his wife, Kunhammu, a retired headmistress of the GMLP School, Thrithala, and three children — Sreekala (teacher), Mini, and Santhosh Kumar (assistant executive engineer, Kerala Water Authority, Malappuram).
Sankaran was also a member of the CPM area committee and the Kerala NGO Union State Council.
The cremation was held at 2 pm.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan offered his condolences on the demise of the communist leader and former legislator.