Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) veteran M.A. Krishnan passed away at a private hospital in Kochi on Tuesday. He was 97.

He was the founder of Tapasya Kalasahitya Vedi and Balagokulam. He had worked as an RSS prantha boudhik pramukh, prachar pramukh and editor of Kesari.

A native of Kollam, he took to RSS activism after a brief stint as a teacher.