V S Achuthanandan
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Thiruvananthapuram: Family of former Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan is unlikely to accept the Padma Vibhushan award.
Achuthanandan's son Arun Kumar said in a social media post that Achuthanandan's family would be with the ideologies of the party that he represented.
CPM general secretary M A Baby had recently said that Achuthanandan would have declined the Padma award if he was alive.
Communist leaders E M S Namboothiri and Jyoti Basu had earlier rejected the Padma awards as it was against party ideologies.
Arun Kumar said in a social media post on Thursday that, "the political party that my father represented has a clear political stand on such official honours. As a Communist, my father always firmly held those ideologies. Hence the party will also stand by those ideologies, " he said.
He also said that the family believes that the place that Achuthanandan has in people's heart was being considered by the party as the biggest award.
Even as Arunkumar initially expressed happiness over the Padma award to Achuthanandan, later he said that being a party family they would take a decision after consulting party leadership.