Freedom fighter P Gopinathan Nair passes away

India

oi-Prakash KL

Thiruvananthapuram,
July
5:
Gandhian,
freedom
fighter
and
Padma
Shri
awardee
P
Gopinathan
Nair
handed
away
on
Tuesday
following
age-related
illnesses
at
a
non-public
hospital
in
close by
Neyyattinkara.
He
was
aged
99.

Leaders,
reducing
throughout
political
strains,
condoled
the
loss of life
of
the
Gandhian.
Chief
Minister
Pinarayi
Vijayan
described
him
as
a
particular person
who
had
imbibed
the
Gandhian
values
and
rules
in
private
as
effectively
as
public
life.

Nair
had
all the time
been
a
fixed
inspiration
for
Gandhian
actions,
he
mentioned
in
his
message.

Congress
veteran
A
Ok
Antony
remembered
him
as
one
of
the
biggest
Gandhians
lived
in
the
state
and
as
a
particular person
who
devoted
his
whole
life
for
propagating
the
rules
of
the
Mahatma.

Chief
of
opposition
in
the
state
meeting
V
D
Satheesan,
ministers
and
MLAs
have been
amongst
these
who
condoled
the
loss of life
of
the
freedom
fighter.

Born
on
July
7,
1922
at
Neyyattinkara,
he
began
his
public
life
by
taking part
in
freedom
battle
throughout
his
faculty
days
and
was
imprisoned
for
taking
half
in
the
Give up
India
motion.

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An
ardent
admirer
and
follower
of
Mahatma
Gandhi
since
he
was
a
youth,
Nair
acquired
the
likelihood
to
meet
the
Father
of
the
Nation
throughout
his
go to
to
the
princely
state
of
Travancore.

He
later
travelled
the
size
and
breadth
of
the
nation
to
propagate
the
Gandhian
ideologies.

Nair
participated
in
the
historic
Bhoodan
Motion
(land
reward
motion)
by
Vinoba
Bhave
and
served
as
the
president
of
Gandhiji’s
Sevagram
Ashram
for
a number of
years.

He
additionally
helmed
the
state-based
Gandhi
Smaraka
Nidhi
for
a long time.

Regardless of
his
superior
age,
Nair
was
lively
in
public
life
until
some
time
again.

The
nation
honoured
him
with
the
Padma
Shri
in
2016.

Thought-about
as
a
residing
instance
of
Gandhian
values
and
rules,
he
had
been
a
fixed
presence
in
the
socio-cultural
state of affairs
of
the
southern
state
for
a number of
a long time.