NE NEWS SERVICE
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, FEB 9
One of the tallest Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders in the country, ideologue, author and founder of Bharatheeya Vichara Kendram (BVK) P. Parameswaran breathed his last at his friend’s residence in Kerala’s Palakkad district on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, according to an RSS leader.
He was 93 and was resting at his friends place after undergoing an ayurveda treatment. The country decorated him with Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan. The last rites would be held at his home town at Muhama, in Alappuzha district, on Sunday evening
Often referred to as Parameswarji, he was an excellent orator and began his career as a pracharak (organizer) of the RSS. Parameswaran became an RSS pracharak or a full-time worker at a young age.
BVK is an intellectual and research body of the Sangh Parivar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him as his “guru.”
In 1957, he was entrusted with the task of building up the Bharatheeya Jan Sangh in Kerala and went on to be the vice president of the Jana Sangh.
After being jailed during the emergency, he moved from politics to areas of social thought and development and became director of the Deendayal Research Institute at New Delhi for four years. In 1982, he returned to Kanniyakumari and founded BVK.
He had very close links with top BJP leaders like L.K. Advani and Murali Manohar Joshi.
Parameswaran’s body will be kept at the RSS Karyalaya in Kochi and the funeral will be held in the evening, sources in RSS said.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan while condoling the death of the RSS veteran said he was one who lived immersed in the ideology he believed.
