Veteran CPI(M) State Secretariat member and three-time MlA VV Dakshinamoorthy passed away at a hospital here on Wednesday.
Dakshinamoorthy (82), former chief editor of party mouthpiece Deshabhimani, was admitted to the District Co-operative hospital on August 21 for treatment of lung cancer and his end came around 3.30 pm, CPI-M and family sources said.
He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. He had represented Perambara in the state assembly thrice — in 1965, 1967 and in 1980 — and had also functioned as the chief whip of CPI(M).
Dakshinamoorthy was Deshabhimani’s Kozhikode unit manager for 19 years and had functioned as the Managing Director of Deshabimani Printing and Publishing company.