{"id":331263,"date":"2021-03-18T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331263"},"modified":"2021-03-18T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T10:28:42","slug":"kerala-congress-leader-skariah-thomas-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-congress-leader-skariah-thomas-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Congress leader Skariah Thomas passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Kerala Congress leader Skariah Thomas passed away on Thursday due to post-Covid complications.<br \/>\nThe 74-year old leader was admitted to the hospital late last month for post-Covid difficulties.<br \/>\nAfter confirming the virus, he was admitted to Pala Medicity and then after recovering was admitted to Kochi Aster Medicity for respiratory ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was the chairman of Kerala Congress (Skariah Thomas), which is part of Kerala&#8217;s ruling CPI(M)-led LDF.<br \/>\nHe was the chairman of the Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Ltd under the state Industries department.<br \/>\nThomas was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kottayam constituency in the elections held in 1977 and 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Kerala Congress leader Skariah Thomas passed away on Thursday due to post-Covid complications. The 74-year old leader was admitted to the hospital late last month for post-Covid difficulties. After confirming the virus, he was admitted to Pala Medicity and then after recovering was admitted to Kochi Aster Medicity for respiratory ailments. Thomas was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,2196],"tags":[834,13988,13987],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331263"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331265,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331263\/revisions\/331265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}