M. P. Veerendra Kumar

M. P. Veerendra Kumar (22 July 1936 – 28 May 2020) was an Indian politician, writer and journalist. He was a Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2004 to 2009. He was also a member of Rajya Sabha from 2016 to 2017 and again from 2019 to 2020. He was a member of the Loktantrik Janata Dal political party.

He was also the chairman and managing director of the Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi. 

Kumer died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Calicut, India on 28 May 2020, aged 83.

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