Former MLA of Singanallur Assembly Constituency {K}.C. Karunakaran handed away on Thursday. He was 74.
Mr. Karunakaran was the Coimbatore district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 1997 to 2001, and MLA from 2001 to 2006.
In the 2001 Assembly election, he defeated his nearest rival Pongalur Palaniswamy of the DMK. He had constructed a library, ingesting water tank, and VAO workplace in a number of villages in his constituency utilizing greater than 70 % of MLA funds. He had joined the commerce union motion as a employee of the Electricity Department. He was arrested and imprisoned for a month when he fought for the rights of staff of Kadambarai hydel electrical venture. He had walked with the protesters from Kadambarai to Coimbatore Collectorate.
Mr. Karunakaran had organised a serious rally right here after the bomb blasts in Coimbatore. He is survived by a son and a daughter.
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