Kannur : Former KPCC General Secretary, Kannur DCC President and also a KPCC member, Satheesan Pacheni has passed away aged 55. The end came this morning in a private hospital in Kannur. He was admitted following a paralytic stroke on the 19th.
Pacheni was son of Late Palekkal Damodaran and Malicheri Narayani. Wife : employee at Urban Co-op Bank. Children Jawahar and Sania are students. Siblings : Suresh(Secretary at Thaliparambu Coop Agriculture Development Bank), Sindhu, Sandhya.
Pacheni entered politics through KSU. He was KSU’s Taluk Secretary in Thaliparambu, its district Secretary, President and State President later. He has led several student strikes and had been one of the prominent Congress leaders from the A Group. Pacheni later switched sides landing in I Group. He was elected to the Assembly five times and though contested once for Lok Sabha, did not make it. He represented Thaliparambu and Malambuzha once, Kannur twice and was once elected from Palakkad.