Pushpan was one of the most beloved personalities of the Malayalees. He was known as Comrade Pushpan and a living martyr. He was shot while protesting against former CPM leader and later Congress leader MV Raghavan. This incident is known as Koothuparmu firing. 5 youths became martyrs that day. Pushpan was shot but did not die.
For nearly three decades later, Pushpa lived in bed as a living martyr. Communist leaders used to come to his house from time to time to greet him. Pushpan is a role model for the youth of Kerala. It was on the issue of self-supporting colleges that Pushpan protested against M.V. Raghavan, who was also the then education minister. But later, most of the children of communist leaders studied in self-financed colleges and so on, it is poetic justice of the times. The children of most of the communist leaders studied in private colleges and universities in other countries. Then the question asked by a section of comrades was who was Pushpan who shot him.
In any case, all the communist leaders are shedding tears on his death. The Chief Minister has said that the youth should take Pushpan as an example and question the wrong. “We have lost our souls,” said AA Rahim. At the same time, the Facebook post of Sreejith Panicker, who is now a right-wing observer on this issue, is being noticed in the social media.
“Comrade Pushpan was a living martyr in the truest sense. It was his movement that assigned Pushpan to the struggle. It was a movement against the privatization of private education and higher education and against the coming of foreign universities. 24-year-old Pushpan, who was shot in that struggle, spent the next 30 years of his life in bed. Meanwhile, the movement changed its policy and position. Liberal approach to self-education, privatization of higher education and entry of foreign universities. The loss came to those who lost their lives in Koothuparam, Pushpan and their family members. Therefore, prominent leaders who changed the policy of the movement should carry and accompany Pushpan on his final journey. And that is the most appropriate funeral for him and atonement for his earlier wrong policy. Tributes to Comrade Pushpan” – this was Sreejith Panicker’s post.