Chennai: Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi’s final private secretary V. Kalyanam handed away attributable to old-age associated illnesses in Chennai.
He breathed his final aged 99 at his daughter’s residence in Chennai on Tuesday.
Kalyanam joined the liberty wrestle through the Quit India Movement in 1942. He was Mahatma Gandhi’s private secretary from 1943 to 1948 throughout which his job was to type out 1000’s of mails that got here for the previous.
Kalyanam was one of many few who witnessed Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30, 1948. He was the person who knowledgeable each India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and first deputy prime minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel of Gandhi’s dying.
Kalyanam later labored as Edwina Mountbatten’s secretary in London. He returned just a few years later after which labored for C. Rajagopalachari and Jayaprakash Narayan.
Kalyanam typically criticized the Congress Party for forgetting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and was additionally important of India’s first prime minister Pandit Nehru.
He joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2014.
