Thousands pay tribute to their beloved chief Oommen Chandy in Kottayam

Express News Service

KOTTAYAM: Former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy by frenzied plenty evoking reminiscences of one among his highly-popular mass contact programmes lasting for a number of hours at a stretch. He would stand amidst the teeming throngs, patiently listening to their woes.

But this time the moos was extra sombre because the chief lay there in silence. The large crowd of mourners who thronged the route refused to go away and have been eager to catch a glimpse of their beloved chief on Thursday.

Thousands, together with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, film stars Mammootty, Suresh Gopi and Dileep together with senior politicians reducing throughout social gathering traces, paid tribute to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy after his mortal stays reached Kottayam.

After paying tribute to Chandy, the Governor additionally spent a number of moments along with his relations.

‘Athivegam Bahudooram’ (Fastest, Farthest), was a coinage that proved synonymous with Oommen Chandy. He was nonetheless by no means capable of persist with his schedule in public life, as he would at all times be engulfed by the general public. In each life and demise, Chandy stayed true to this. His funeral procession took hours to inch ahead. People thronged all alongside the MC Road to pay their final respects to the beloved chief.

The procession carrying the mortal stays began from ‘Puthuppally house’ at Jagathy within the state capital at 7.15 am on Wednesday, and reached solely at 11.15 am on Thursday at Thirunakkara maidan in Kottayam, taking 28 hours to cowl 150 kilometres.

In his closing journey too, Chandy made it a degree to stay with the crowds. Tens of hundreds of individuals are pouring into Thirunakkara from throughout the state, giving a troublesome time for the police in crowd administration. Though the funeral is scheduled for Thursday night, it’s nonetheless unsure when the mortal stays shall be taken to Puthuppally for the funeral providers.

A bunch of distinguished individuals comparable to actors Mammootty, Dileep, Harish Piasharadi, senior Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala, Vayalar Ravi, V D Satheesan, P C Vishnunath, T Sidhique, M Liju, Ministers V N Vasavan, Roshy Augustine, MPs Jose Okay Mani, Thomas Chazhikadan, Kodikkunnil Suresh and lots of others are at Thirunakkara.

Earlier, the KSRTC bus carrying the mortal stays from Thiruvananthapuram moved at a gradual tempo in order to let folks ready on either side of the street to pay homage, marking it as an distinctive final journey of a political chief.

“We had travelled together many times from Kottayam to Thiruvananthapuram via Kottarakkara, right from our KSU days during the 1960s. However, this journey is intensely painful,” stated senior Congress chief KC Joseph, a staunch loyalist of Chandy.

“People are giving back their love and affection to Chandy, who lived for them. People, including women and children with folded hands and weeping eyes, offered an unprecedented send-off to their leader. None of the political leaders had received such a kind of affection and warmth from the people,” he added.

After the general public exhibition at Thirunakkara, the mortal stays shall be taken to Karottu Vallakalil, Chandy’s ancestral home in Puthuppally by 2.30 pm and later to his new home which is below development.

The police and Seva Dal employees of Congress in addition to its leaders may barely management the ocean of people that vied with one another to get a closing glimpse of Chandy, who died in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

People provided flowers, wreaths, and prayers and even cried as they obtained one final glimpse of Chandy.

The organisers have been pressured to rush together with the paying of tributes by the general public as a result of greater than 24-hour-long delay within the hearse carrying his stays reaching Kottayam, the stronghold of the Congress stalwart, which had unravelled their total schedule for conserving the physique for show and the following funeral.

The police additionally introduced that everybody would get a chance to see the departed chief as a way to management the huge crowd.

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According to the preliminary schedule, the physique was to be stored on public show on Wednesday and because of this, hundreds have been ready there since then until at the moment morning for his stays to reach.

He shall be later buried in a specifically ready tomb adjoining to departed clergymen of his village church, bringing to an finish an period in Kerala politics.

The burial can be a easy one with none state honours in accordance with the want of the late Congress chief.

Nevertheless, being buried within the unique clergymen’ burial space contained in the church premises, as an alternative of his household vault within the cemetery, is an honour in itself.

He is being accorded the honour as a mark of respect by the authorities of the St George Orthodox Church at Puthuppally contemplating the immense contributions made by Chandy to the parish and to the church for many years.

ALSO READ | Oommen Chandy, Kerala’s Congress colossus

As per widespread observe, the mortal stays of odd believers are buried within the cemetery and people of clergymen in an unique space situated north or south of the church.

Chandy, who served because the chief minister of Kerala twice, breathed his final in a personal hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday at 4.25 am.

His finish got here whereas present process remedy for most cancers, social gathering sources stated.

He was 79.

(With inputs from PTI)

KOTTAYAM: Former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy by frenzied plenty evoking reminiscences of one among his highly-popular mass contact programmes lasting for a number of hours at a stretch. He would stand amidst the teeming throngs, patiently listening to their woes.

But this time the moos was extra sombre because the chief lay there in silence. The large crowd of mourners who thronged the route refused to go away and have been eager to catch a glimpse of their beloved chief on Thursday.

Thousands, together with Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, film stars Mammootty, Suresh Gopi and Dileep together with senior politicians reducing throughout social gathering traces, paid tribute to former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy after his mortal stays reached Kottayam.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

After paying tribute to Chandy, the Governor additionally spent a number of moments along with his relations.

‘Athivegam Bahudooram’ (Fastest, Farthest), was a coinage that proved synonymous with Oommen Chandy. He was nonetheless by no means capable of persist with his schedule in public life, as he would at all times be engulfed by the general public. In each life and demise, Chandy stayed true to this. His funeral procession took hours to inch ahead. People thronged all alongside the MC Road to pay their final respects to the beloved chief.

The procession carrying the mortal stays began from ‘Puthuppally house’ at Jagathy within the state capital at 7.15 am on Wednesday, and reached solely at 11.15 am on Thursday at Thirunakkara maidan in Kottayam, taking 28 hours to cowl 150 kilometres.

In his closing journey too, Chandy made it a degree to stay with the crowds. Tens of hundreds of individuals are pouring into Thirunakkara from throughout the state, giving a troublesome time for the police in crowd administration. Though the funeral is scheduled for Thursday night, it’s nonetheless unsure when the mortal stays shall be taken to Puthuppally for the funeral providers.

A bunch of distinguished individuals comparable to actors Mammootty, Dileep, Harish Piasharadi, senior Congress leaders Ramesh Chennithala, Vayalar Ravi, V D Satheesan, P C Vishnunath, T Sidhique, M Liju, Ministers V N Vasavan, Roshy Augustine, MPs Jose Okay Mani, Thomas Chazhikadan, Kodikkunnil Suresh and lots of others are at Thirunakkara.

Earlier, the KSRTC bus carrying the mortal stays from Thiruvananthapuram moved at a gradual tempo in order to let folks ready on either side of the street to pay homage, marking it as an distinctive final journey of a political chief.

“We had travelled together many times from Kottayam to Thiruvananthapuram via Kottarakkara, right from our KSU days during the 1960s. However, this journey is intensely painful,” stated senior Congress chief KC Joseph, a staunch loyalist of Chandy.

“People are giving back their love and affection to Chandy, who lived for them. People, including women and children with folded hands and weeping eyes, offered an unprecedented send-off to their leader. None of the political leaders had received such a kind of affection and warmth from the people,” he added.

After the general public exhibition at Thirunakkara, the mortal stays shall be taken to Karottu Vallakalil, Chandy’s ancestral home in Puthuppally by 2.30 pm and later to his new home which is below development.

The police and Seva Dal employees of Congress in addition to its leaders may barely management the ocean of people that vied with one another to get a closing glimpse of Chandy, who died in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

People provided flowers, wreaths, and prayers and even cried as they obtained one final glimpse of Chandy.

The organisers have been pressured to rush together with the paying of tributes by the general public as a result of greater than 24-hour-long delay within the hearse carrying his stays reaching Kottayam, the stronghold of the Congress stalwart, which had unravelled their total schedule for conserving the physique for show and the following funeral.

The police additionally introduced that everybody would get a chance to see the departed chief as a way to management the huge crowd.

ALSO READ | Oommen Chandy: Smile is the person

According to the preliminary schedule, the physique was to be stored on public show on Wednesday and because of this, hundreds have been ready there since then until at the moment morning for his stays to reach.

He shall be later buried in a specifically ready tomb adjoining to departed clergymen of his village church, bringing to an finish an period in Kerala politics.

The burial can be a easy one with none state honours in accordance with the want of the late Congress chief.

Nevertheless, being buried within the unique clergymen’ burial space contained in the church premises, as an alternative of his household vault within the cemetery, is an honour in itself.

He is being accorded the honour as a mark of respect by the authorities of the St George Orthodox Church at Puthuppally contemplating the immense contributions made by Chandy to the parish and to the church for many years.

ALSO READ | Oommen Chandy, Kerala’s Congress colossus

As per widespread observe, the mortal stays of odd believers are buried within the cemetery and people of clergymen in an unique space situated north or south of the church.

Chandy, who served because the chief minister of Kerala twice, breathed his final in a personal hospital in Bengaluru on Tuesday at 4.25 am.

His finish got here whereas present process remedy for most cancers, social gathering sources stated.

He was 79.

(With inputs from PTI)