Veteran Congress leader and twice a member of Lok Sabha from Chirayankeezhu constituency, Thalekunnil Basheer, 79, died early Friday.
The end came at his family house at Vembayam, where he was convalescing from chronic heart disease. Doctors gave cardiac failure as the cause of death.
Mr. Basheer's wife, Suhra, sister of the late actor Prem Nazir, had died in 2013. His son Nishanth, an IT expert based in London and his daughter, Nishana, survive him.
