Kanyakumari MP and Congress leader H Vasanthakumar succumbed to the COVID-19 infection on Friday evening. The Apollo hospital in Chennai announced the demise of the 70-year-old parliamentarian. The hospital, in a statement, said that he was being treated in the critical care unit for COVID pneumonia. He was the working president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and had been an MLA from the Nanguneri Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. Vasanthakumar was the younger brother of former TNCC president Kumari Anandan and his niece Tamilisai Soundararajan is the Governor of Telangana.

Source: dna August 28, 2020 15:55 UTC