<p>Senior Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader and veteran politician T J Chandrachoodan, who was ailing for some time, passed away at a private hospital on Monday, at the age of 82.</p>.<p>Chandrachoodan was just one of the three Keralites to have become the RSP's national general secretary and was a respected leader by his party's friends and foes for his in-depth knowledge on most issues.</p>.<p>Despite his best efforts, he failed to contest the Assembly polls on a few occasions in Kerala.</p>.<p>A rank holder in MA, he later quit his job as a college professor in 1987 and took up full-time politics and rose to the level of the All India general secretary of the RSP.</p>.<p>The last rites of the departed leader are likely to be held on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Senior Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader and veteran politician T J Chandrachoodan, who was ailing for some time, passed away at a private hospital on Monday, at the age of 82.</p>.<p>Chandrachoodan was just one of the three Keralites to have become the RSP's national general secretary and was a respected leader by his party's friends and foes for his in-depth knowledge on most issues.</p>.<p>Despite his best efforts, he failed to contest the Assembly polls on a few occasions in Kerala.</p>.<p>A rank holder in MA, he later quit his job as a college professor in 1987 and took up full-time politics and rose to the level of the All India general secretary of the RSP.</p>.<p>The last rites of the departed leader are likely to be held on Tuesday.</p>