New developments are done in Kerala. Late Congress leader and former Kerala Minister PK Velayudhan’s wife Girija Velayudhan on Tuesday got keys to the apartment which the state government built for the family under the Life Mission project, LDF government’s housing project for the homeless. Girija who had been striving to build a house after the death of the former Minister had approached the CPI(M) led-LDF government seeking help.

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PK Velayudhan, a two-time MLA and Minister during the time of former Chief Minister K Karunakaran, had passed away in 2003. The Congress leader had won as MLA from Pandalam and Njarakkal. He secured the post of Minister for Community Development from 1983 to 1987. AK Balan, Minister for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes and Backward classes, handed over the keys to the apartment constructed at Kalladimukham in Thiruvananthapuram, built as part of the Life Mission project under Thiruvananthapuram Corporation.

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In the event held in Thiruvananthapuram, Minister AK Balan recalled how it was worrisome to see the wife of a veteran Congress leader approaching him seeking help. During the time of his death, PK Velayudhan was the General Secretary of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).  Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan also showed the hardships the wife of a Congress veteran had to undergo after the minister's death. Pinarayi Vijayan said, “She had been going through a lot of hardships living in rented houses and even as a paying guest. She had earlier approached the state government during the former government’s tenure, asking for aid but in vain.” 

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