Chithralekha, 47, had been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kannur for the last two weeks, and doctors confirmed her death around 3am following respiratory failure.
Senior CPM leader Elamaram Kareem, responding to Anvar’s declaration of forming a new party, said it would be difficult for him to sustain such a formation outside the fold of the LDF.
Day after the Nilambur MLA hit out at the party and LDF government for alleged inaction on his complaints against ADGP (law and order) MR Ajith Kumar and CM’s political secretary P Sasi