VS ACHUTHANANDHAN............
Velikakathu Shankaran Achuthanandan popularly known as Comrade VS, belongs to a rare brand of leaders .He has no stature of an intellectual giant but why do people wait for the comments of this high school drop out on all issues? He has no stature of a man of charisma but why do people gather where ever he is? He was never a man in power but what has contributed to his phenomenal organizational skill?

For him, leadership didn't come in a platter. Neither does he see leadership just as a token of appreciation for the hardships he underwent, earlier in his political life. The responsibilities entitled on him is accepted as a mandate to share the hardships even more. At 83, you can find him with a youthful exuberance and in the midst of people whenever and wherever an atrocity is done. Its his passion for the soil, its sons that makes him a man of the masses. A humanitarian to the core, no barrier could ever stop him from his life motto.