Even though the 101-year-old veteran leader is responding to medications, hospital sources said his blood pressure and kidney function have not yet stabilised.
Published Jun 30, 2025 | 12:29 PM ⚊ Updated Jun 30, 2025 | 12:29 PM
V S Achuthanandan. (Wikimedia Commons)
Synopsis: Former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan continues to be in a critical condition at the SUT Hospital, where he has been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit since 23 June.
Former Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan continues to be in a critical condition at the SUT Hospital in Pattom in the Thiruvananthapuram district, sources said on Monday, 30 June. He has been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit since 23 June.
Even though the 101-year-old veteran leader is responding to medications, hospital sources said his blood pressure and kidney function have not yet stabilised. The medical team continues to closely monitor his condition.
Achuthanandan, one of the most prominent figures in Kerala’s Left politics, has been battling age-related ailments for the past few years.
Achuthanandan has been confined to home due to age-related issues for some time now. The “conscience keeper” of the public, VS, is the last of the surviving 32 communists who left the CPI in 1964 to form the CPI(M).
Until he withdrew from active politics, he was the most powerful voice in the CPI(M), often to the chagrin of his comrades, as he strictly adhered to the communist ideology and had uncompromising stands on issues of governance, inclusive growth, and the environment.
Though he has been silent for the past few years, VS remains Kerala’s most eminent social presence. Even his silence becomes vocal whenever his party and the present state government draw public ire for deviating from Left politics and allegedly adopting crony capitalism.
A school dropout, who served as the state’s chief minister until the ripe old age of 88, VS had been forced to confine himself at home — without even visitors as per medical advice — after suffering a stroke.
After the LDF posted a win in the 2016 Assembly polls, VS, who spearheaded the campaign, was made the State Administrative Reforms Commission chairman. He later resigned, citing age-related issues.
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil with inputs from Dileep V Kumar.)
