Chennai:
Senior Bhartiya Janata Party leader Sukumaran Nambiar died following an heart attack today, party sources said.
Sukumaran (60), Bhartiya Janata Party's National Executive Committee member, is survived by wife and two sons, party sources told PTI.
Son of legendary actor, late M N Nambiar, the soft-spoken leader was believed to have enjoyed good rapport with Bhartia Janata Party veteran L K Advani and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam supremo J Jayalalithaa.
A former military instructor, Sukumaran was seen as instrumental in firming up alliance between the two parties1998 and 2004.
An industrialist by profession, Nambiar had unsuccessfully contested the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, losing to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's C Kuppuswamy from North Chennai constituency.