Team News Riveting
Thiruvananthapuram, December 22
The Working President of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) and legislator P T Thomas passed away at the CMC hospital in Vellore on Wednesday.
The Congress legislator was a heart patient and was recently diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment at CMC Vellore where he breathed his last at 10.15 a.m. on Wednesday.
A no-nonsense leader, 71-year-old Thomas was a four-time legislator and represented the Idukki Lok Sabha constituency from 2009-14 and since 2016 has been representing the Thrikakara Assembly constituency in the Ernakulam district.
Thomas fought for what he felt was right and that helped him all through his political career. In the recently concluded Assembly session, he took on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan boldly and exposed his stand on certain issues and there were times when the two even exchanged words on the floor of the Assembly.
He was made a Working President of the newly-constituted State Congress Committee after party’s poll debacle in the April 2 Assembly polls.
