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Anil S ByExpress News ServiceTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Iconic Kerala Marxist leader Velikkakath Sankaran Achuthanandan, VS to all, turns 96 on Sunday, October 20. In a short three-and-a-half-minute speech, he managed to touch upon almost all topics currently hogging the state political limelight. A founder leader of CPM, VS Achuthanandan, is the oldest living Communist in India. Maintaining his own stance even at the cost of opposing the party, VS has always had the image of a leader of the masses. It was during the Indo-China war in 1964 that VS was first subjected to party disciplinary action..