Senior Kerala Congress Leader C F Thomas No More
Kottayam (Ker): Senior Kerala Congress pioneer and Changanassery MLA C F Thomas passed on at a private clinic in Thiruvalla on Sunday, party sources said here. He was 81.
He had been going through treatment for certain afflictions, they said. Thomas, who had been speaking to Changanassery voting public in the Assembly since 1980 with no break, was likewise the Minister for Rural Development, Registration, Khadi and Village Industries in the Congress-drove UDF government during its 2001-2006 residency.
He was a nearby partner of late Kerala Congress (M) pioneer K M Mani. Thomas got related with the P J Joseph group in the Kerala Congress(M) because of the break between two gatherings in the gathering following Mani's demise in April a year ago.
Starting his political exercises while he was an understudy, Thomas joined the Indian National Congress and afterward became Vice-President of Changanassery Town (West) Mandalam. He joined Kerala Congress on its development and rose in the gathering positions.
He likewise held the post of state General Secretary and Chairman of Kerala Congress (M).
One of the establishing pioneers of the Kerala Congress (Mani) territorial gathering and a nine-time MLA from Changanassery, CF Thomas died at a private clinic in Thiruvalla Sunday at 81 years old. He had been sick for a while.
Thomas, destined to CT Francis and Annamma Francis in 1939, entered governmental issues through the Kerala Students Union (KSU), the understudy outfit of the Congress. He later left the gathering to hold hands with KM Mani and other people who were feeling baffled inside the Congress and proceeded to make a local outfit called the Kerala Congress which drew its help fundamentally from ranchers and Christian electors in focal Kerala. A couple of years after its development, the Kerala Congress (M) aligned with the Congress and hosts stayed with the gathering from that point onward, notwithstanding a couple of years in the middle.
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Thomas challenged Assembly races unexpectedly from Changanassery in Kottayam region in 1980 and proceeded to win a record nine sequential occasions from a similar seat till the most recent political decision in 2016. He stayed a MLA for a long time and is viewed as an advanced engineer of Changanassery, which developed into a significant town in Kottayam area. In the Congress-drove UDF government somewhere in the range of 2001 and 2006, Thomas filled in as the clergyman for country advancement, enlistment and khadi.
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