{"id":306847,"date":"2018-12-11T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306847"},"modified":"2018-12-11T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T04:54:48","slug":"senior-congress-leader-c-n-balakrishnan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/senior-congress-leader-c-n-balakrishnan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Congress leader C.N. Balakrishnan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306848 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/C-N-Balakrishnan-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/C-N-Balakrishnan-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/C-N-Balakrishnan-696x399.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/C-N-Balakrishnan-733x420.jpg 733w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/C-N-Balakrishnan.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Kerala minister and senior Congress leader CN Balakrishnan passed away at a private hospital in Kochi on Monday night. He was undergoing treatment of pneumonia, party sources said. He was 87.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Balakrishnan is survived by his wife and two daughters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He first contested polls in 2011 and went on to become the state Cooperation Minister in the Oommen Chandy cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A close aide of former Kerala Chief Minister K Karunakaran, Balakrishnan was the president of Thrissur district Congress committee for 17 years and was also the treasurer of the state unit for a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kerala minister and senior Congress leader CN Balakrishnan passed away at a private hospital in Kochi on Monday night. He was undergoing treatment of pneumonia, party sources said. He was 87. Balakrishnan is survived by his wife and two daughters. He first contested polls in 2011 and went on to become the state Cooperation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10206,10204,10205,4704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306849,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306847\/revisions\/306849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}