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Created: 2025-07-21 10:47:38 UTC

A dominant figure in Kerala politics for several decades and a founding member of the CPI(M), former chief minister Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, popularly known as Comrade VS or just VS, died at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. He was XXX years old.

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