Chengara struggle leader Laha Gopalan passes away
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Pathanamthitta: Laha Gopalan, the leader of the Chengara land agitation, passed away on Wednesday. He was 72.
Gopalan was under treatment for COVID-19 and was afflicted by other ailments too.
In 2007 he led from the front an agitation of landless people to reclaim the estate land belonging to the Harrisons Malayalam Limited, a corporate giant in the agricultural field.
The agitation came to be known as the Chengara Samaram or Chengara Struggle as it was waged near this place in Kerala's Pathanamthitta district.
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