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Leaders condole death

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan described Kadammanitta’s poems as a powerful onslaught on all forms of injustice, inequality and decadence.

Kadammanitta, the Chief Minister recalled in a message released here on Monday, played a pivotal role in the progressive literary movement in Kerala and fought to the very last against cultural colonisation.

In his message, Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy said Kadammanitta had taken modern Malayalam poetry to the people and that his poems would stand the test of time.

Culture Minister M.A. Baby said Kadammanitta had given gale force to modernity in Malayalam poetry. He was one of the finest proponents of modernity but assimilated all the powerful elements of the traditional.Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said Kadammanitta had given voice to the oppressed in his poems and that he was a revolutionary in the true sense of the term, who used his vocation as poet to strike hard at political and social decadence.Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Veliyam Bhargavan said Kadammanitta had given expression to the hopes and aspirations of the poor. LDF convener Vaikom Viswan said Kadammanitta was a poet of raw power.

KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala said Kadammanitta was a poet who displayed absolute social commitment.

Speaker K. Radhakrishnan, Ministers C. Divakaran, P.K. Sreemathy, G. Sudhakaran, A.K. Balan, Benoy Viswom, Mathew T. Thomas, Syro Malankara Catholic Church Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Catholicos, Purogamana Kala Sahithya Sanghom State general secretary V.N. Murali and the DYFI State committee expressed sorrow at the death of Ramakrishnan.

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