On Friday evening Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari H. Vasanthakumar,70 died due to Covid-19here on Friday , officials said.
Vasanthakumar was admitted in Apollo Hospital after testing positive for coronovirus.
He was also the promoter of Vasanth & Co consumer durable retail chain
Currently her daughter, Tamilisai Soundararajan is the current Telegana Governor.He was the younger brother of veteran Congress leader Kumari Ananda.
In 2019, Vasanthakumar was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kanyakumari constituency where he defeated BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan.
At that time, he was a sitting member of the Tamil Nadu Assembly, elected from Nanguneri seat. He subsequently resigned as an MLA.
The Vasanth & Co consumer durable retail chain is one the largest in the country with about 90 outlets, mostly in Tamil Nadu, but also in Bengaluru and Puducherry.
