C B C Warrier award presented to K N Raveendranath

K N Raveendranath is a leader who stands as a symbol of integrity and ideological commitment in politics and the trade union field, said Minister G Sudhakaran. The minister was speaking after presenting the C B C Warrier award for the best trade unionist, instituted by the C B C Warrier Foundation, to CITU leader K N Raveendranath.

Raveendranath's is a personality that has won the respect of other trade union leaders by doing trade union work rooted firmly in the essence of communist ideology. That not a single allegation has been heard against him in seven decades of political and trade union work shows his integrity and greatness, the minister said.

Receiving the award, K N Raveendranath said the political situation in which the basic gains the working class won through long struggles are slipping away must be taken very seriously, and urgent steps taken to remedy it. The CITU is trying to promote the political awareness and ideological firmness that will keep workers from being trapped in caste, religious, communal and regional divisions and drifting into apoliticism, he said.

K N Raveendranath handed over the award amount of Rs 25,000 to Saji Cherian MLA, chairman of the Karuna Pain and Palliative Society led by the CPI(M) Alappuzha district committee. Saji Cherian gave the amount back to the Karuthal Palliative Society run under the CBC Foundation.