Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Tenures of Assembly
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF
MEMBERS
Vice President, Karshaka Sangham, Ernakulam District Committee; Member, CPI (M)
District Committee; Undergone imprisonment for almost three years; Entered politics
through Freedom Movement; Actively associated with Kisan Front and in organising
Beedi Workers.
Expired on 16-03-1992; Obituary made on 30-03-1992.
President, Trichur District Congress Committee; Debarred from School in 1942 for
participating in Quit India movement; Initially a Communist Party member; Joined
Congress in 1950; Had a special interest in histrionics.
Expired on 17-09-1971; Obituary made on 26-11-1971.
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Took Masters Degree and Law Degree from Aligar Muslim University; Practiced as
Lawyer in Trivandrum from 1949, shifted to Manjeri in 1958.
Address: Advocate, Kovilakam Road, Manjeri, Malappuram District. Pin. 676 121.
Member, Palakkad District Panchayat; AHADS Governing Body; State Vice President,
Muslim Youth League; Palakkad District Secretary and State Committee Member
Muslim League; Actively associated with State Literacy Mission, Library Council, State
Resources Centre, District Planning Committee, Food Advisory Committee and
Orphanage Committees.
Address: Kalathil House, Mannarkkad, Palakkad. Pin 678 582.
Treasurer, State Muslim League; Vice President, Malappuram District Muslim League
Committee; Director 'Chandrika'; President, MES, Malappuram District; Associated with
various educational institutions and orphanages.
Expired on 16-01-1995; Obituary made on 30-03-1995.
Chairman, Committee on Private Members Bills and Resolutions (1969-70), I.S.P. Kerala
State Committee; Member, Muslim League State High Power Committee; President,
Kerala State Swatantra Thozhilali Union; Took part in Salt Sathyagraha; Was in Burma
during World War II; Returned to India in 1942 by foot leading a batch of refugees;
Founder General Secretary, Muslim Labour Union.
Editor : "Kerala Prabha " Weekly.
Expired on 04-01-1999; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
Member, Lok Sabha (1967-70); CPI (M) State Committee, CITU Working Committee,
Freedom Fighter, Imprisoned for six months in 1938; Entered politics as a Congress
Worker; Joined Communist Party in 1941; Undergone imprisonment for a period of six
years.
Address : Kollettu House, Velloor.P.O., Pampady, Kottayam. Pin. 686 501.
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President, Maradi Panchayat for two terms; Actively participated in freedom movement;
Was a teacher before entering public life; Renowned trade union leader.
Obituary made on 11-08-1989.
Minister for Transport and Labour from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962 and from 26-09-
1962 to 10-09-1964; Member, Lok Sabha (1952-57); General Secretary, SNDP Yogam,
Cochin and General Secretary, SN Trust; Member, Municipal Council, Irinjalakkuda;
Entered public life through National Movement; Family had intimate relations with Shri
Narayana Guru.
Expired on 08-01-1999; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
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Joined Congress at the age of 16; Took active part in Guruvayoor Satyagraha and Khadi
Movement and also in the movement for the removal of untouchability; Journalist for
sometime; very much involved in Athletic and Cultural activities.
Obituary made on 16-07-1983.
Opposition Leader 9th KLA from 01-03-1992 to 14-05-1996, 11th KLA since
06-06-2001; Secretary, CPI (M) State Committee (1980-92); Convenor, Left Democratic
Front (1996- 01); Member, CPI (M) State Committee, State Secretariat, Central
Committee and Polit Bureau; Imprisoned for five years and Six months and went
underground for a total period of four and a half years in 1946, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1965 &
1975 for taking part in struggle for Independence, Punnapra Vayalar struggle & various
other agitations.
Selected Works ; :' Kerala Niyama Sabha Innale, Innu, Nale; ' Marxisathinte
Munnettam; Thirichadiyum Thirichuvaravum’.
Address : Velikkakathu House, Punnapra North P.O., Alappuzha -4.
Member, Lok Sabha [Adoor (1967-71)]; General Secretary and President, All Travancore
Kuravar Mahasabha.
Expired on 07-08-1976; Obituary made on 15-10-1976.
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Minister for Food and Forests from 25-09-1971 to 15-05-1972, Minister for Finance
from 16-05-1972 to 25-12-1975, Minister for Forest and Irrigation from 26-02-1975
to 25-03-1977; Member, Lok Sabha (1984-87), AICC; Chairman, Kerala Public Service
Commission; President (Acting), K.P.C.C; President, Kerala State Scouts and Guides,
Regional Co-operative Bank; Director, Science, Development Planning and Transfer of
Technology Centre.
Expired on 22-10-1987; Obituary made on 02-11-1987.
Union Minister of State, External Affairs since 23 May 2004, Minister for Industry
from 24-05-1982 to 25-03-1987; Member, Lok Sabha (1991-96), (1996-98), (1998-99),
(1999-04) and since 2004, Kerala State Muslim League Working Committee since 1967,
Kerala and Calicut University Senate; Chairman, Committee on Government
Assurances (1987-91); Kannur Municipal Council, Committee on Absence of Members
from the Sittings of the House (Lok Sabha), Joint Committee on Food Management in
Parliament House Complex, Kerala State Rural Development Board, SIDECO; National
Secretary, Indian Union Muslim League.
Publications : One Foreign Journey and Numerous Memories, A Story of Renaissance of
Indian Muslims; The Leader I Know (Malayalam).
Address : SITARA, Kannur. Pin 670 012 & 9, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi.
Pin 110001.
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Served in various capacities in the Education Department; Retired from service in 1961.
Expired on 19-04-1982; Obituary made on 3-3-1983.
Minister for Local Administration from 29-06-1991 to 16-03-1995, Minister for Public
Works From 20-04-1995 to 09-05-1996; Member, Muslim League State Working
Committee; Treasurer, Muslim League Committee, Kasaragod, Swathanthra Karshaka
Sangham State Committee.
Address : M.G. Road, Kasaragod. Pin 671121.
Member, Senate and Syndicate, Kerala University; Participated in the High Court Bench
agitation and undergone imprisonment; Trade union leader of Coir workers, Matsya
Thozhilali Union and PWD Workers.
Expired on 22-02-2004; Obituary made on 28-07-2004.
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Member, Kerala State Social Welfare Advisory Board, DDC, Managing Committee, Sree
Chitra Poor Home; Joint Secretary, Kerala State Mahila Congress.
Address : ‘Bakhita’, House No. E 14, Sastri Nagar, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.
Pin 695 002.
Minister for Welfare of Scheduled and Backward Communities and Cultural Affairs
from 05-09-2004 onwards; District Secretary, KSU, Malappuram; District Vice
President, Youth Congress (1986); State General Secretary, Youth Congress.
Address : Akkarapurakkal House, P.O. Down Hill, Malappuram..
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Member, Lok Sabha (1991-96), Kerala University Senate; Chairman, Kerala University
Union; State Vice President and National Committee Member, SFI; Vice Chairman,
Khadi and Village Industries Board.
Address : Thayyil House, Pollethai P.O., Alappuzha. Pin 688 567.
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Treasurer, Kerala Schools Athletic Association; President, Malabar Teacher's Guild; Won
the State Teacher’s Award; Founder Member, Indian Socialist Party; Educationaist.
Expired on 24-01-2005. Obituary made on 10-2-2005.
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Government Chief Whip in 8th Kerala Legislative Assembly; Member, Rajya Sabha
(1967-68), President, Thrissur District Co-operative Bank, Choondal Panchayat;
Chairman, Coconut Development Corporation; Secretary, Karshaka Sangham,
Thrissur; Joint Secretary, Karshaka Sangham, State Committee; Member, CPI (M) State
Committee.
Address : Sangamam, Choondal P.O., Thrissur. Pin 680 502.
President, Idukki Bar Association (Two terms), National Estate Workers Congress,
Idukki District Co-operative Bank, Idukki District Congress Committee (from 1988);
Member, Spices Board of India, INTUC, National Council; Treasurer, Youth
Congress; Congress Party Leader, Idukki District Council.
Address : Edamanakunnel House, Thovarayar P.O., Erupathekkar, Kattappana, Idukki.
Deputy Chief Minister from 24-10-1983 to 25-03-1987, Minister for Panchayat &
Community Development from 09-11-1968 to 21-10-1969, Minister for Local
Administration from 1-11-1969 to 1-8-1970, Minister for Food & Local
Administration from 04-10-1970 to 25-03-1977, Minister for Local Administration from
11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977, from 27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978 and from 09-12-1978 to
07-10-1979; Chairman, House Committee (1960-62), Committee on Public Undertakings
(1982-83); Deputy Leader, Muslim League Legislature Party (1980-82); Member,
Malabar District Board (1954); Vice President, Indian Union Muslim League Kerala
State Committee; President, Kerala State Swathanthra Thozhilali Union.
Expired on 11-08-1988; Obituary made on 21-12-1988.
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Chairman, Committee on Petitions (1957-58) & (1958-59); Worked for the uplift of
Harijans.
Expired in 1960; Obituary made on 02-03-1961.
Minister for Labour from 17-05-2001 to 29-08-2004, Minister for Labour since
05-09-2004; Chairman, Committee on Environment (1998-00); President, R.Y.F State
Committee (1983); R.Y.F. National Committee (1990); Member, RSP National
Committee (1995), RSP (B) State Secretariat.
Address : Santhalayam, Pattathanam, Kollam-1.
Secretary, Indian Congress (S) Kerala State Committee, KPCC (S) Regional office.
Address : Valiyatharayil, Mulavukad.P.O., Kochi. Pin 682504.
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BABY JOHN B.A. Course Completed; Son of Shri Sebastin John and
Smt. Mary John; born on 14 September 1920; Wife : Annamma B.
John; 2 Sons including Shibu Baby John MLA, 1 Daughter.
Member, Travancore Cochin Legislative Assembly (1952-54),
Ist KLA [Thrikkadavur-RSP], 2nd KLA [Karunagappally-RSP],
3rd KLA [Karunagapally-RSP], 4th KLA [Karunagapally-RSP],
5th KLA [Chavara-RSP], 6th KLA [Chavara-RSP],
7th KLA [Chavara-RSP], 8th KLA [Chavara-RSP],
9th KLA [Chavara-RSP], 10th KLA [Chavara-RSP].
Minister for Revenue & Labour from 04-10-1970 to 25-03-1977, Minister
for Revenue from 11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977 and from 27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978,
Minister for Revenue & Co-operation from 29-10-1978 to 07-10-1979, Minister
for Education from 25-01-1980 to 20-10-1981, Minister for Irrigation from
26-03-1987 to 17-06-1991, Minister for Irrigation & Labour from 20-05-1996 to
07-01-1998; General Secretary, RSP; All India President, UTUC.
Address: Vayalil Bunglow, Neendakara, Kollam.
Municipal Councillor, Kozhikode; Member, Malabar District Board, KPCC for 10 years
and KPCC Working Committee for years; Actively associated with Scouts and Library
Movement; Participated in Salt Sathyagragha and Quit India Movement.
Obituary made on 4-7-1989.
Member, Rajya Sabha (1992-98) and since 2003; Vice President District Co-operative
Bank, Kollam; Managing Committee Member, State Co-operative Union; President,
D.C.C Kollam; General Secretary and President, KPCC.
Address : Ambadi, Yamuna Nager, Karakulam P.O., Thruvananthapuram.
Employed in KSEB till 1959; Was under detention for a short spell; Working Committee
Member, All India Karshaka Thozhilali Federation; Co-operator; Director, District Co-
operative Bank, Trivandrum; Member, Kerala University Senate.
Expired on 15-09-1991; Obituary made on 30-03-1992.
K. K. BALAKRISHNAN Intermediate Course Completed,
Training Course in Khadi & Village Industries; Son of Shri
Karappakutty; born on 20 June 1927; Wife: P. C. Rugmini;
1 Son, 4 Daughters.
Member, Travancore Cochin Legislative Assembly (1954-56),
2nd KLA [Chalakudy-Reserved-INC],
4th KLA [Chelakkara–(SC)-Congress(R)],
5th KLA [Chelakkara–(SC)-INC],
6th KLA [Chelakkara–(SC)-INC],
7th KLA [Thrithala–(SC)-INC],
9th KLA [Vaikom-(SC)-INC].
Minister for Harijan Welfare and Irrigation from 11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977 & from
27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978, Minister for Transport from 24-05-1982 to 29-08-1983;
Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of SC/ST (1973-74) & (1979-81);
Chief Whip, Congress Legislature Party; General Secretary and President, State
Depressed Classes League; Director, D.C.B., Trichur; Member, Calicut University
Senate; Organising Secretary, Kerala I.N.T.U.C.
Expired on 31-08-2000; Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
KODIYERI BALAKRISHNAN Graduate; Son of
Shri Kunhunni Kurup and Smt. Narayani Amma; born on 16
November 1953; Wife: S. R. Vinodini; 2 Sons.
Vice President, Kerala Grandhasala Sangom; Executive Member, Kerala Public Service
Commission, Kerala Sahitya Parishad.
Associate Editor and Publisher, Janayugom, Honorary Editor, Grandhalokam.
Address : Sarasam, Kadappakkada, Kollam.
Member, Lok Sabha (1980-84), Estimates Committee, Lok Sabha; First President of the
District Council, Palakkad; Chairman, K.S.F.E; Member, Calicut University Senate,
General Council Kerala Agricultural University; President & Secretary, SFI State
Committee (1979-82); Secretary, CITU Palakkad District; Member, CPI (M) State
Committe; State Vice President and National Working Committee Member, CITU.
Address: " Janani", Parakunnam, Palakkad. Pin 678 001.
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Took active part in Civil Liberty’s Movement; Became a member of Communist Party in
1950; State Council Member, CPI; President, Chethu Thozhilali Federation; President,
Vadakkekara Panchayat.
Expired on 08-11-2001; Obituary made on 29-11-2001.
Member, Indian Coffee Board; Director, Kerala State Co-operative Bank; President,
INTUC, Palakkad District, D.C.C., Palakkad (1954); Secretary, D.C.C., Palakkad
(1960); General Secretary, K.P.C.C.; State President, Deseeya Karshaka Thozhilali
Federation.
Expired on 08-06-2004; Obituary made on 28-07-2004.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1980-84), Rajya Sabha (1988-94) & (1994-00); Member, C.P.I (M)
Polit Bureau; National President, CITU.
Publications : ‘Silent Valley, Ecological and Environmental Protections.’
Address : Ponnankulathu House, Kalamasery, Alwaye, Ernakulam.
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Member, Rajya Sabha (1977-79) & (1979-84); Lok Sabha (1984-89) & (1989-91);
Chairman, TRIDA; General Secretary, KPCC; Member, KPCC Executive.
Publications : 'Velicham Kooduthal Velicham' ( Collection of Articles), 'Rajeev Gandhi :
Surya Thejassinte Ormakku' 'Mandelayude Nattil; Gandhijiyudeyum' (Travelogue).
Address : Kochar Road, Sasthamangalam P.O., Thiruvananthapuram-10.
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Minister for Public Works from 29-06-1991 to 16-03-1995, Minister for Panchayat and
Social Welfare from 20-04-1995 to 09-05-1996; Secretary, Muslim League Legislature
Party; Member, KSRTC Advisory Council for four years, Muslim League Secretariat,
Chemanchery Panchayath; President, Kerala Muslim Educational Association, Muslim
Youth League State Committee (1974-90); General Secretary, Kozhikode District
Muslim League.
Address : Al-hira, Kappad P.O, Kozhikode District.
T. O. BAVA Son of Shri T. V. K. Ooran and
Smt. C. I. Fathima; born on 20 January 1919; Wife : Kadija;
2 Sons, 2 Daughters.
Minister for Education and Social Welfare from 27-01-1978 to 03-10-1978, Minister
for Food and Civil Supplies from 24-05-1982 to 25-03-1987; Chairman, Committee on
Subordinate Legislation (1991-93) & (1993-94), Library Advisory Committee
(1970-71), House Committee (1979-81); B.D.C, Kerala Fishermen Welfare Corporation;
President, Malappuram District Co-operative Bank; Organising Secretary, State Muslim
League; Director, State Co-operative Bank; District Secretary, Muslim League,
Kozhikode.
Publications : Arab World and Europe.
Expired on 31-05-2001; Obituary made on 05-07-2001.
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Member, Kerala University Senate; President, KSU (1979); General Secretary, Kerala
Pradesh Youth Congress Committee (1981), K.P.C.C.
Address : VI/926, Kunjuvittykudy, Thrikkakara P.O., Cochin –21.
Member, AICC, Kottayam Municipal Council; President D.C.C., Kottayam; Took part in
Civil Disobedience Movement and was imprisoned in 1942; Later became leader of
Communist Party.
Obituary made on 30-03-1981.
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Secretary, D.C.C. (1965), District President, Congress (O) (1971); District President,
Janatha Party (1977); President, Janatha (G) (1982-98).
Address : 'Sharibhas', Cannannore - 1.
Secretary, KPAC; Renowned Stage Artist, Play Write and Film Director.
Publications : Ningalenne Kammunistakki, Mooladhanam, Mudiyanaya Puthran,
Aswamedham, Puthiya Aakasam, Puthiya Bhoomi.
Expired on 08-12-1992; Obituary made on 04-02-1993.
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Minister for Industries from 25-01-1980 to 16-10-1981; Member, Lok Sabha (1991-96),
(1996-97) & (1998-99); General Secretary, KSU, All India Youth Congress,
KPCC; President, Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress.
Address : Sarahito, Valavi Road, Ernakulam. Pin 682 018.
Minister for Home Affairs from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962, Minister for Home from
26-09-1962 to 20-02-1964; Opposition Leader, 1st KLA (1957-59); Chief Whip,
Congress Legislature Party, Travancore Legislative Assembly (1948); Secretary,
Congress Legislature Party, Travancore Legislative Assembly; Member, Indian
Constituent Assembly, Lok Sabha (1952-53); President, Kottayam, D.C.C (1945).
Expired on 31-07-1964; Obituary made on 02-09-1964.
Member, Malabar District Board for nine years; Took active interest in Co-operative
movement and Harijan upliftment.
Expired on 18-12-1972.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1967–71), CPI (M) State Committee; Whip, CPM in the Seventh
KLA; Secretary, Trichur District Committee, CPI (M); Later State Secretariat Member,
CMP.
Editor : "Desabhimani" and served in the Editorial Board of "Communist" &
"Navayugam".
Expired on 01-03-1991; Obituary made on 07-03-1991.
Member, CPI (M) Kasargod District Secretariat; Secretary, Karshaka Sanghom District
Committee; President, Kayyur Cheemeni Panchayat; Vice- President, Kasargod District
Co-operative Bank; Participated in Karivalloor Paddy Seizer revolt (1946); Jailed in
Velloor Central Jail (1946-48).
Expired on 23-3-1989; Obituary made on 29-03-1989.
Member, Travancore Devaswom Board (1967); C.P.I (M) State Secretariat; C.P.I. (M)
State Committee (since 1954); District Secretary, C.P.I.(M) Alleppey.
Was placed in the array of accused for the involvement in the Punnapra-Vyalar Struggle
& worked for the party for about 12 1/2 years in underground. Undergone imprisonment
for 1 1/2 years during emergency; Manager, Deshabhimani Daily Trivandrum Edition.
Publications : "Punnapra Vayalar "
Address : Edakkara Warriam, Ambalapuzha, Alleppey District.
Member, Lok Sabha (1971-77), (1977-79) and since 2004; Vice Chairman, Kerafed;
Chairman, K.T.D.C.; General Secretary, A.I.S.F., Kerala; President, A.I.S.F National
Committee, A.I.K.S., Kerala State Council; General Secretary & President, A.I.Y.F.
National Council; National Vice President, All India Kissan Sabha.
Attended 25th congress of Communist Party of Soviet Union in 1975, Bulgarian
Communist Party congress in 1981, Young Communist League in Moscow and World
Youth Festival in Sofia, World Food Summit in 1994 at Rome.
Editor : 'Youth Life' Journal (English), 'Yuva Vedi' (Hindi) & 'Krishikkaran' (Malayalam).
Address : Koonthirisseril, Vayalar P.O., Cherthala.
Minister for Law & Revenue from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962 and from
26-09-1962 to 09-10-1962, Minister for Education & Law from 26-03-1987 to
17-06-1991; Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation (1958-59); Leader of
Janatha Legislature Party in the 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th K.L.A. and Leader of Janatha Dal
Legislature Party in the 9th K.L.A; Member, Rajya Sabha (1967-76), Rubber Board,
Kerala Sports Council, Bar Association of India & Supreme Court Advocates
Association; Chairman, Kerala unit of P.S.P., S.S.P. , I.S.P. and Janatha Party.
Publications : Reflection on the Indian revolution, Let Us Unite, The Face of Freedom.
Address : Shanti, Thrikkakkara, Kochi-21.
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President, State Kaithari Thozhilali Council; District Secretary, CPI (M) Kannur; State
Secretary, CPI (M); Undergone imprisonment during 1948-50; Central Committee
Memebr, CPI (M); Went underground several times following Morazha, Padikkunnu and
Karayalam incidents.
Expired on 09-09-1998; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
Member, Agricultural Workers Union All India Working Committee, CPI (M) Palakkad
District Committee Secretariat.
Address : Pallom House, Muthalanada.P.O., Kollengode, Palakkad.
Member, Rajya Sabha (1979–85); President and Secretary, Kerala State Karshaka
Sanghom; Secretary, All India Kisan Sabha; District Secretary, Kozhikode and Member,
State Council of Undivided Communist Party; State Secretariat Member, CPI (M).
Editor, Chintha Weekly and Director Board Member of Desabhimani Printing and
Publishing House.
Expired on 10-08-1990; Obituary made on 17-12-1990.
Member, CPI (M) Palakkad District Committee, CPI (M) Palakkad District Secretariat;
District Secretary, President, State Joint Secretary and All India Central Committee
Member, SFI; District Secretary and State Joint Secretary, DYFI; Entered politics
through SFI; Active worker of DYFI.
Address : Anamary, Erattakulam, Alathur, Palakkad. Pin 678 682.
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Secretary, D.C.C., Kottayam; Took part in freedom struggle from 1939; Organised
Plantation Labourers in the Peermade area; Leader of INTUC.
Expired on 31-08-1989; Obituary made on 24-01-1990.
V. P. C. THANGAL (Cherukoya Thangal) ESLC; born in July
1916.
Member, Council of Madras Provincial Muslim League for thirty years; President,
Ponnani Panchayat; Vice President, District Muslim League, Palghat.
Expired on 16-09-1983; Obituary made on 12-12-1983.
J. CHITTARANJAN Pre-Degree, Graduate Course Completed;
Son of Shri C. Janardhanan; born on 22 October 1927;
Wife : L. Ambika; 1 Son, 2 Daughters.
Minister for Agriculture from 24-05-1982 to 29-08-1983; Member, Indian Rubber Board;
President, Service Co-operative Bank, Thamarassery, Kerala State Co-operative
Marketing Federation, Karshaka Congress State Committee, Nationalist Congress Party
(N.C.P.) State Committee.
Address : Kattipara P.O, Thamarasseri (via), Kozhikode Dist.
Minister for Industries from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962, Minister for Industries and Local
Administration from 26-09-1962 to 10-09-1964; Member, Lok Sabha (1950) &
(1952–57); Secretary, Aikya Kerala Committee (1945); President, Kerala Press Academy
(1977), K.P.C.C (1957); Secretary, K.P.C.C (1936); Resident Editor, Mathrubhoomi
Daily.
Publications : Narmakadhakal (2 Parts) Bhavana Soonam; Balaraman, Thoppile Nidhi
etc.
Expired on 01-11-1980; Obituary made on 10-12-1980.
DAMODARAN KALASSERY Malayalam Higher; Son of
Shri Kunjan Vaidiar and Smt. Cheera Kunjan; born on 08
March 1932; Wife: M. A. Bhanumathy;
2 Sons, 3 Daughters.
President, Coirfed; Member, CPI (M) District Secretariat, Alappuzha; Chairman, Upper
Kuttanad Vikasana Samithi; Executive Member, Onattukara Vikasana Samithi; Member,
Kerala University Senate; Patron, NTPC Labour Union.
Address : Mani Bhavanam, Chingoli, P.O., Harippad. Pin 690 532.
Minister for Works from 06-03-1967 to 21-10-1969, Minister for Works and
Tourism from 04-10-1970 to 19-01-1976; Leader of the House (1969-70); Deputy Leader
of Opposition Parties in the T.C.L.A.; Chairman, Estimates Committee in T.C.L.A,
Kollam Municipality; Member and Vice Chairman, Coir Board; President, U.T.U.C.,
Kerala State.
Expired on 19-01-1976 while being a minister; Obituary made on 16-02-1976.
Minister for Fisheries & Sports since 05-09-2004; Leader of Opposition in the Cochin
Corporation Council; General Secretary, Ernakulam D.C.C (I) (1979-92); Associated
with Sports, Cinema and Cultural Activities.
Address: Valiathayil, Sunoro Church Road, Ernakulam, Kochi. Pin. 682 020.
Councillor and Mayor, Trivandrum Corporation; Member, Kerala Sports Council and All
India Football Federation; President, Badminton Association of India.
Expired on 21-12-2003; Obituary made on 5-2-2004.
Minister for Industries and Social Welfare since 06-01-2005; Chairman Forest Industries
(Travancore) Ltd.; District Secretary, IUML Ernakulam District; State Working
Committee Member, IUML; State Vice President, STU, KMEA; General Secretary,
Al-Manar Public School, Kuzhivelipady; Syndicate Member, Cochin University of
Science and Technology; General Secretary, C.H. Mohammed Koya College of
Engineering and Technology, Kochi; Executive Member, Gosree Island Development
Authority and GCDA; Editor, 'Eeyugam' daily published from Aluva.
Address: Grace Garden, Panayapilly, Kochi.Pin. 682 005.
State Vice President, INTUC; Secretary, D.C.C Thrissur (1955-57); President, Thrissur
DCC (1963-67); Chairman, BDC, Ollukara; President, State Municipal and Corporation
Employees Union; Member, KPCC Executive; Participated in Quit India Movement.
Expired on 10-05-2002; Obituary made on 17-06-2002.
President, Pallivasal Panchayat, High range Workers Union; Active in Harijan upliftment
work and sports.
Address : Ganesh Bhavan, Muthanmudi, Munnar, Idukki. Pin 685 612.
Member, Kerala University Senate, CPI (M) State Committee; Organising Secretary,
Cochin S.N.D.P., Kerala S.N.D.P. Yogum; Secretary, C.P.I Ernakulam District
Committee; Vice President, Kerala State Trade Union Council; Started Trade union
activities in 1935; undergone imprisonment for a period of five years.
Editor : 'Sarasan', janatha' and 'Prakasam'.
Expired on 21-03-1985; Obituary made on 02-04-1985.
Member, District Committee and State Committee CPI (M); Participated in freedom
movement; Undergone imprisonment several times; Had to endure police assault.
Expired on 13-05-1999; Obituary made on 20-07-1999.
Member, Lok Sabha (1998-99) and (1999-03), Member, Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress
State Committee; State Secretary, K.S.U.(I) (1980); Convener, U.D.F. Ernakulam
(1987).
Expired on 26-07-2003 while serving as a Member of Parliament; obituary made on
29-07-2003.
Minister for Food and Forests from 05-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; Member, Rajya Sabha
(1952-54); Was Advocate of Travancore High Court till 1938; Leader of Travancore
State Congress and its Working Committee Memebr; Member, KPCC; Played an active
role in Punnappra-Vayalar Struggle; When the ban on Communist Party was lifted
became the President of Kerala unit of the Party; Joined Communist Party in 1939.
Publications : “Immortal Punnappra-Vayalar”, “Ente Jeevitha Yatra”.
Expired on 10-08-1986; Obituary made on 17-08-1987.
Municipal Councillor, Trichur District; District President, INC (O), Janatha Party Trichur
District.
Address : Kunjappu House, Lurdupuram, Trichur– 5.
Took part in National Freedom Movement; Later became a trade union leader of
standing; Executive Committee Member, CPI and later District Secretary, CPI (M); Has
long been a member of Grama Panchayat.
Expired on 12-09-1995; Obituary made on 06-03-1996.
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President, Kollam District Kerala Congress; Kollam District Volley Ball Association;
Member, Standing Committee, Kollam District Sports Council; Vice President, Kerala
Volley Ball Association; Member, University Football Team and Kerala State Hockey
Team.
Expired on 14-12-1983; Obituary made on 05-03-1984.
Took part in State Congress movement in 1939; Congress worker before joining CPI in
1941.
Expired on 24-01-1979, while serving as a Member; Obituary made on 19-02-1979.
Member, CPI (M) Palakkad District Committee; Member, All India Democratic
Women’s Association, Central committee, State Secretariat.
Address : Kunnathurmedu P.O., Palakkad. Pin 678 013.
General Secretary, Kerala Private School Teachers Federation; Joined Indian Navy in
1943; Worked as Wireless operator in Police department during 1949-52; Member, CPI
State Council, Kerala University Senate and Syndicate.
Expired on 21-05-1982; Obituary made on 07-07-1982.
Founder President, Kerala State Milk Societies Association; Chairman, Milma; Vice President, Indian Dairy
Association; Member, National Dairy Development Board; General Council and Academic Council Member,
Kerala Agricultural University; President, KSU District Committee, Kollam, District Youth Congress
Committee, Kollam; General Secretary, Kollam District Congress Committee.
Recipient of K. Sadanandan Award for the Best Co-operator (1991), 'Bharath Dooth' award by Indian
Confederation of Agriculture (1995); Golden Global Award by Global Economics Council (1995),
Swadeshabhimani award by K.R. Elankath Memorial Trust (2000), Udyog Pragathi Award (Global Economic
Council 1995), Bharath Udyog Award 1996, (Indian Economic council), Prof. M. K. Chandy Foundation
Award for the Best Co-operator (2005).
Address: Prayar House, Chithara P.O., Kollam. Pin. 691 559.
Vice President and General Secretary, Kerala Youth Congress; Member, Quilon DCC;
President, Kerala Khadi Board Workers Union; Author of one act plays, poems and short
stories in Malayalam.
Editor : "Priya" Monthly; Sub - Editor : "Common Friend " & "Kalashetram"
Weeklies; Editorial Board Member 'Malayala Rajyam' Daily.
Expired on 17-02-2003; Obituary made on 16-06-2003.
E. P. GOPALAN Son of Shri M. P. Chathunni Nair; born
in 1912; Wife: Padmavathy; 2 Sons, 2 Daughters.
Entered politics by joining Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930; Joined CPI in 1939;
Arrested and convicted for 21 months in 1939 for anti war speech; Detained under DIR in
1945; Went underground during 1948-51; Member, Malabar District Board; President,
Palghat District Karshaka Sanghom; First non-official Chairman, Agro Industries
Corporation.
Expired on 01-11-2001; Obituary made on 29-11-2001.
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Member, Malabar District Board (1939), KPCC (1937-40), Provincial Committee of CPI
from 1946; Imprisoned during 1948-51; First accused in the Morazha Murder Case of
1940, sentenced to death but due to pressure of public opinion sentence was commuted;
Participated in Salt Sathyagraha under Shri. Kelappan, played an important role in the
formation of Congress Socialist Party.
Managing editor : Deshabhimani (1964-67).
Expired on 05-08-1997; Obituary made on 22-12-1997.
President, Pathanapuram SNDP Union; Member, SNDP Board of Directors; Took part in
freedom movement; worked for upliftment of depressed classes.
Obituary made on 31-03-1986.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1967-71), CPI (M) State Committee; Kept under detention for 16
months during 1964-65; Joined CPI in 1957.
Expired on 27-09-1978, while serving as a Member; Obituary made on 19-02-1979.
Secretary, CPI (M) Ernakulam District; Editorial Board Member, Karshaka Keralam;
Associated with social activities through Student’s Movement in 1968; Undergone
imprisonment many times.
Address : Koattamurikkal House, S. N. Road, Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam District.
Member, N.S.S. Director Board; President, Palliyoda Seva Sangham (Aranmula Boat
Races); Parliamentary Party Secretary of Congress during Sankar Ministry.
Address : Malethu House, Varisseri, Mariyathuruthu P.O., Kottayam. Pin 686027.
Deputy Leader, S.P. Legislature Party; Secretary, SSP Trichur District Unit (1957);
Member, SSP State Parliamentary Committee (1968); Entered politics through Students
Congress; Became member of Congress Socialist party in 1947.
Editor : " Adhyapakan", the organ of Kerala Aided Primary Teachers Union.
Editor and Publisher of monthly educational journal Adhyapanam.
Expired on 16-06-2001; Obituary made on 05-07-2001.
Entered politics in 1945 through Cochin Rajya Praja Mandalam; Joined CPI in 1952;
Member, Alleppey District Secretariat and State Council; Chairman, Committee of
Privileges (1987-89); President, Peringala Panchayat.
Editor : "Kerala Bhoomi " (1965-67).
Expired on 07-08-2002; Obituary made on 14-02-2003.
Member, Palghat District Committee, CPI (M), Vellinazhi Panchayat; Secretary, Palghat
District Karshaka Sanghom; Participated in Freedom Movement; Joined INC in 1949 and
later CPI in 1952; Active in organising agricultural workers.
Expired on 09-05-2004; Obituary made on 28-07-2004.
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State Vice President of KSYF; Central Committee Member DYFI; State President, DYFI;
State Secretary, DYFI; Secretary, CPI (M) Kannur District Committee.
Address: Shyama, Morazha P.O., Kannur Dist.
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Minister for Agriculture and Electricity from 06-03-1967 to 21-10-1969, Minister for
Transport & Electricity from 25-09-1971 to 25-03-1977; Member, Lok Sabha (1977-79),
Rajya Sabha (1962-67); Leader CPI Legislature Party; Secretary, CPI Kerala Unit,
Travancore Unit of CPI, CPI Central Secretariat, National Executive, CPI; Was
imprisoned several times during pre-independence period and had to go underground
likewise; Organised Anti-Jap activities in Travancore in 1940.
Spent A Year in Gandhiji's Ashram At Wardha and was active in Harijan uplift work.
Expired on 27-11-1984; Obituary made on 07-03-1985.
Chief Whip, Congress Legislature Party; Vice President, Land Mortgage Bank,
Cannanore; Member, Executive Committee of DCC and KPCC; Was an educational
instructor in the Indian Army, previously.
Expired on 21-07-1983; Obituary made on 28-07-1983.
President, Perinthalmanna Panchayat; Entered politics in 1932, joined later CPI in 1942;
Organised Anti-Jap groups in 1942; Agitated for introduction of rationing and against
unlawful rent collection; Underwent imprisonment several times.
Obituary made on 01-10-1969.
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Member, Kerala Sahithya Academy; Executive Committee, Kerala Kala Mandalam, CPI,
State Council; Participated in Quit India Movement; Contributed articles to several
periodicals.
Expired on 13-08-2003; Obituary made on 14-08-2003.
Chairman, Public Accounts Committee (1970-71), Joined the CPI (M) Group in the
Assembly; First Vice Chairman, Planning Board; Principal, T. K. M. Engineering
College, Kollam; Senate Member, Kerala University, Kerala State Board of Technical
Education; Former Project Engineer, FACT; Member, Sports Council.
Expired on 25-11-1998; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
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Member, Rajya Sabha (1970-79), Public Service Commission, Kerala University Senate,
Home Guard Advisory Committee; President, Kasaragod Muslim League Committee,
Muslim League Kannur District Committee; Chairman, Rural Development Board,
Municipal Council, Kasaragod.
Address : Advocate, 'Sea View', Thayalangadi, Kasaragod.
Minister for Works, Wakf, Haj and Inland Navigation from 02-04-1987 to 17-06-1991;
Member, Lok Sabha since 2004; Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts (1991-93),
Committee of Privileges (1996-98), & (1998-01); Government Chief Whip (1996-01);
General Secretary, District Youth Congress, Kozhikode; President, DCC, Malappuram;
Joined INC in 1957 and served in Youth Congress and INTUC; Joined CPI (M) in 1984;
District Committee Member, CPI (M).
Address : Advocate, Manjeri, Malappuram District.
Deputy Leader, Janatha Legislature Party (1977); Chairman, Fort Cochin Municipal
Council for 25 years; Member, Cochin Corporation, Cochin Port Trust for 10 years;
Director, YMCA, Cochin; Joined INC in 1928; Participated in Quit India Movement an
was sentenced for eighteen months.
Expired on 31-08-1998; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
Minister for Transport from 06-03-1967 to 01-11-1969; Member, Lok Sabha (1957-62)
& (1962-67), Rajya Sabha (1952-54), CPI (M) State Committee; District Secretary, CPI
Palakkad, CPI (M) Malappuram; District President, CITU, Malappuram; Member, All
India Working Committee CITU; Joined nationalist movement and worked in Congress
party before joining CPI in 1940.
Expired on 11-04-1995 while serving as a Member; Obituary made on 24-04-1995.
Minister for Revenue from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-2001; Assistant Secretary, CPI State
Council; General Secretary, Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Federation; Member, CPI
National Council; Served in the Indian Army during 1962-64.
Address : Kundukad, Kizhakkenchery P.O., Palakkad Dist.
Started life as a teacher; Worked as Medical practitioner for 25 years before entering
politics in 1982.
Address : Eloor Kozhumattathil House, Kolencherry P.O., Ernakulam.
Chairman, BDC, Chalakudy for 5 Years; District President, Kerala Congress, Trissur,
Chalakkudi Bar Association; Member, Kerala Congress State Committee; Entered active
politics in 1954 through INC.
Expired on 19-03-1998; Obituary made on 23-04-1998.
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Minister for Revenue from 01-11-1969 to 01-08-1970; Chairman, Kerala State Housing
Board; Participated in the National Movement; Took active measures for giving title of
land to landless labourers.
Expired on 14-06-1976; Obituary made on 15-10-1976.
Vice President, State Film Chamber; General Secretary, KPCC (S) and Member State
Election Committee; Member, All India Film Chamber; President, Kerala Cinema
Exhibitors Association; Undergone imprisonment several times.
Expired on 11-02-1990; Obituary made on 13-02-1990.
State Vice President, CITU; Member, CPI (M) State Committee; Started political career
through KSYF.
Address : Kunnathu House, Kunjithanni P.O., Pin 685 565.
Member, C.P.I. State Council; Entered politics through Student Movements; District
Secretary, CPI Thrissur District Committee.
Address : Manaloor P.O., Thrissur.
President, Kannur Agricultural Development Bank; State Secretary, KSYF; First All
India President, DYFI; District Secretary, CPI (M) Kannur & Thrissur, Kerala Karshaka
Sanghom; Member, CPI (M) State Secretariat and Central Committee.
Address : Aroli P.O., Pappinissery, Kannur.
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All India Joint Secretary, DYFI; State Secretary, DYFI; Member, District Committee,
Cannanore, CPI (M) State Committee.
Address : Manaveeyam, Peralassery, Mundalore P.O., Kannur. Pin 670 622.
Director, Patyam Gopalan Memorial Research & Study Centre; Manager, Deshabhimani,
Kannur Edition; Secretary, CITU Kannur District Committee; Member, CPI (M) State
Committee.
Address : Patyam Gopalan Smaraka Mandiram, Koothuparamba P.O. Pin 670 642.
Member, Board of Directors of Idukki District Co-operative Bank and Kerala State
Co-operative Bank; Secretary, Idukki District Committee, CPI (M) & CITU State
Committee; President, Kerala Plantation Labour Federation.
Expired on 12-06-1994; Obituary made on 27-06-1994.
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Executive Member, Kerala State Library Council; Member, DYFI State Committee,
C.P.I. (M) District Committee, Ernakulam; Actively involved in Theatre activities– Script
writing, Play writing and Direction.
Address : ‘Ninavu’, Edakochi, Ernakulam District. Pin 682 006.
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies from 11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977 and from
27-04-1977 to 26-09-1978; Merchant Navy Officer from 1927 to 1940 and
Commissioned officer in the Indian Army from 1942 to 1944; President, Kuttanadu
Karshaka Sangham; Vice Chairman, Kerala Congress (1975); Chairman, Kerala Congress
(1976-77); President, Akhila Kerala Karshaka Federation (1965-70).
Expired on 26-09-1978 while serving as Minister; Obituary made on 19-02-1979.
Joined Congress in 1936 and worked in the party till 1950; Member of Kerala Pradesh
Congress Committee and Palghat Taluk Board.
Obituary made on 21-08-1968.
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District Secretary, AIYF; State President, AIYF; National Secretary, AIYF; Member, CPI
State Council and National Council.
Address : Thekecharuvil, Perimbadari P.O., Mannarkkad, Palakkad.
President, District Co-operative Bank, Trissur; Secretary and President D.C.C., Trissur;
Vice President, Youth Congress State Committee; District President, K.S.U; Chairman,
Centre for Co-operative Development; Founder Chairman, Trissur Co-operative Spinning
Mills.
Address : Green View, Kandassankadavu P.O., Trissur.
Parliamentary Party Secretary of PSP in first KLA; Member, Kerala University Senate;
General Secretary, Vice President and President of All Kerala Catholic Congress;
Managing Editor, Kerala Dasan; Reputed for his wit and sense of humour.
Publications : The Syrian Colonisation of Malabar, Thekkumbhaga
Samudayacharitram, Caesarinte Bharya
Expired on 29-10-1983; Obituary made on 12-12-1983.
Chief Whip, Kerala Congress (M); Member, UDF State Co-ordination Committee,
KSRTC Director Board, Electricity Board Consultative Committee; MG University
Senate, Malankara Orthodox Church Managing Committee, M.O.S. Colleges’ Governing
body; Vice President, All Kerala Balajana Sakhyam; General Secretary and Official
Spokesman, Kerala Congress (M); Secretary and President, KSC, Alappuzha District
Committee; President and General Secretary, KSC State Committee; General Secretary,
Kerala Youth Front, KTUC State Committee.
Address: Thekkennattil Puthen Veettil, Puthussery P.O., (via) Thiruvalla, Pin. 689 602.
Minister for Education & Co-operation from 05-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; First Vice
Chancellor, Cochin University; Member, World Peace Council, Kendra Sahithya
Academy, Kerala Sahithya Academy, Kerala Planning Board.
Recipient of titles 'Sahithyakusala' and 'Sahithya Nipuna' from His Highness the
Maharaja of Cochin.
Editor : 'Navajeevan' and 'Prajamithram' dailies.
Publications : 'Professor', 'Konthayil ninnu Kurisilekku', 'China-forward',
'Vayanasalayil', 'Manushya kathanugayikal' and autobiography 'Kozhinja Ilakal'.
Expired on 25-10-1977; Obituary made on 09-02-1978.
Prof. N. M. JOSEPH Post Graduate; Son of Shri Joseph Mathew
and Smt. Annamma Mathew; born on 18 October 1943;
Wife: Elizabeth Joseph; 1 Son, 1 Daughter.
Minister for Forests from 14-04-1987 to 17-06-1991; Member, Kerala University Senate
(1980-84); President, Palai Marketing Society; General Secretary, A.K.P.C.T.A.;
President, Janatha Party Kottayam District Committee; Senior Vice President, Janata Dal,
Kerala State Committee.
Address : Neendukunnel House, Arunapuram P.O., Pala. Pin. 686 574.
Minister for Home Affairs from 16-01-1978 to 15-09-1978, Minister for Revenue and
Education from 28-12-1981 to 17-03-1982, Minister for Revenue and Housing from 24-
05-1982 to 25-03-1987, Minister for Education and Works from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-
2001; Member, Kerala University Syndicate; Chairman, Kerala Congress, Gandhiji Study
Centre; President, Federation of Indian Floriculturists a good singer as well.
Address : Palathinal, Purapuzha, Thodupuzha.
General Secretary, Private College Teachers Federation; President, Kerala Youth Front,
Kerala Karshaka Union; General Secretary, Kerala Congress; Director, K.S.R.T.C.,
Plantation Corporation of Kerala, Balasahithya Institute, A.D.B. Palai, Chairman,
Co-operative Tea Factory, Teekoy.
Publications : Thakarunna Karshika Keralam, Text book for Pre-Degree civics.
Address : Vallikkattu Kuzhiyil House, Aruvithura P.O., Kottayam.
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General Secretary and President, K.G.P.T.A; President, Kerala State Matsya Thozhilai
Federation; Member, CITU Quilon District Committee; Associated with Library
Movement and Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishat; Teacher for 35 years.
Expired on 14-08-1995; Obituary made on 31-08-1995.
General Secretary, Kerala Catholic Youth Movement, Kerala Youth Front; Secretary,
Kerala Congress (M) Kottayam District Committee; Member, Co-operative Union, Board
of Directors, Kerala State Co-operative Rubber Marketing Federations, KSC State
Executive, KC (M) State Executive and Central Secretariat.
Address : Mazhuvannoor House, Melanpara P.O., Bharananganam.
101
Chairman, SERIFED Board; District President, Kerala Grandha Sala Sangham; Vice
President and Standing Committee Chairman, Malappuram District Council; Malappuram
District Secretary of CPI for 8 years; Member, CPI State Committee for 17 years; State
President and General Secretary of AISF, Kerala State Committee; National Executive
Member, AISF; Joined Muslim League in 1987; President, STU State
Committee; Malappuram District Secretary, Muslim League; Member, State Secretariat
Muslim League, Wakf Board, Kerala State Haj Committee, SRC governing body.
Published 'October' Monthly.
Address: Kannanavil House, Ottathara, Kodur P.O., Malappuram, Pin 676 504.
102
Chairman, Head Load workers Welfare Board; State General Secretary and Vice
President INTUC; Secretary, DCC, INC and KPCC; Member, KPCC Executive.
Address : Hridya, Puthuppally Lane, Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Member, Madikkai Panchayat; Served in South Canara District Board; Active worker of
the Communist Party and the Karshaka Sanghom.
Expired in 1971.
Secretary Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilai Union; State Committee Member and State
Secretariat Member, C.P.I. (M); State President and National Vice President, Agricultural
Workers Union; Patron, Adivasi kshema Samithi; Joined Communist Party in 1949; Was
imprisoned many times.
Expired on 19-12-2004; Obituary made on 10-2-2005.
State President, C.I.T.U; Member, CPI (M) State Committee, State Minimum Wage
Advisory Board; Joined CPI in 1939.
Chairman, Editorial Board, ‘CITU Sandesham’.
Address : Chaliloth House, Thana P.O., Kannur-12.
Councillor, Trichur Municipality; Joint Secretary, CITU Trichur; Member, CPI (M)
Thrichur District Committee.
Address : Sitharam Mill Line, Punkunnam P.O., Trichur–2.
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Secretary, C.I.T.U State Committee, All India Road Transport Workers Federation;
Member, CPI (M) Kozhikode District Committee; Actively associated with the agitation
for the re-opening of Mavoor Gwalior Rayons.
Address : Elamaram House, Kovoor, Medical College P.O., Kozhikode District.
Minister for Electricity from 20-04-1995 to 09-05-1996, Minister for Food, Civil
Supplies, Culture and Devaswom from 26-05-2001 to 29-08-2004; Chairman, Petitions
Committee (1991–93), House Committee (1993-95); Deputy Leader, Congress
Legislature Party 10th KLA; Chief Whip for 4 years during 9th KLA; Deputy leader for
one year 9th KLA; Student Member, Kerala University Senate; Secretary, Kerala
University Union; President, KSU; General Secretary and President, Youth
Congress; General Secretary, KPCC; Vice President, KPCC.
Address: Abhayam, Sreerangam Lane, Sasthamangalam, Thiruvananthapuram-10.
President, Perinad Panchyat for a long time;Entered Politics in 1950 and joined the
Communist Party; Active worker of Karshaka Sanghom; Associated with Sasthra
Sahithya Parishat, cultural and Library Movements as well as Co-operative movements.
Expired on 14-5-1999; Obituary made on 20-7-1999.
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Member, Lok Sabha since 2004, CPI (M) Central Committee, CITU, Cannanore District
Committee; Chairman, Kala, An Award Committee; Convenor, Abudabhi Bakhi Award;
Participated in Trade Union struggles and the struggle for distribution of surplus land;
General Manager, Deshabhimani; Printer and Publisher, Deshabhimani.
Address : A.K.G. Quarters, Trivandrum.
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Secretary, CPI (M) Quilon Disrict; Member, CITU All India Working Committee,
CPI (M) State Committee; President, CITU Quilon District Committee; Joined CPI in
1948; Imprisoned for a total period of 6 1/2 years.
Expired on 28-8-2005.
Member, Badagara Panchayat, Kerala Karshaka Sanghom, CPI State Council; Municipal
Chairman, Badagara; Participated in Freedom Struggle; Imprisoned during 1932-34.
Expired on 17-05-1991; Obituary made on 25-07-1991.
Planter; Associated with trade union activities especially among plantation workers.
Address : Pallivasal Estate P.O., Munnar, Kerala.
Minister for Irrigation and Agriculture from 01-11-1969 to 01-08-1970; Chairman, House
Committee (1967-68) & (1968-69); Vice-President and State Executive Member of
Malabar Kisan Panchayat; President, Malabar Harijan Samaj, Kerala State Harijan Samaj,
Karshaka Janata; Joint Secretary, PSP and later SSP.; Member, Janata Party State
Committee, Cochin Shipyard Director Board.
Obituary made on 06-07-1981.
P. K. KORU Post Graduate, LT; Teacher; Born on 15 January
1890.
Secretary, C.I.T.U Palghat District Committee; Member, CPI (M) Palakkad District
Committee; Became a member of CPI in 1951.
Address : 13/130, Chittoor Road, Palghat –13.
Active worker of the Congress and the Congress Socialist Party during 1936-40; Later
joined Communist Party and organised party units in Cochin, Kurumbanad and
Walluvanad; Went underground for three years in 1948.
Obituary made on 27-02-1976.
Minister for Forest & Harijan Welfare from 06-03-1967 to 01-11-1969, Minister
for Harijan Welfare from 25-01-1980 to 20-10-1981; Chairman, Public Accounts
Committee (1977-79), Member, Lok Sabha (1971-77), CPI (M) State Committee;
General Secretary, Cochin Pulaya Maha Sabha.
Expired on 14-11-1995; Obituary made on 06-03-1996.
Member, Palghat Municipality, District Committee CPI (M); Actively participated in the
Agricultural Labour Movements.
Expired on 16-03-1993; Obituary made on 23-07-1993.
Secretary and President, Pulayar Sabha; Member, State Advisory Committee for Harijan
Welfare and Evaluation Committee of the State Legislature; Actively involved in Hrijan
upliftment; Actively participated in freedom movement.
Expired on 26-05-1996; Obituary made on 29-07-1996.
T. K. KRISHNAN Graduate, BL; Advocate; born
on 27 December 1922; Wife: T. N. Sumathi; 2 Sons,
3 Daughters.
Member, Travancore Cochin Legislative Assembly
(1952-53) & (1954-56),
1st KLA [Kunnamkulam-CPI],
3rd KLA [Nattika-CPI (M)),
4th KLA [Kunnamkulam-CPI (M )].
Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts (1973-74), Estimates Committee (1967-68),
Assurance Committee (1976-77), Library Advisory Committee (1975-76); Chief Whip,
The United Front (1967-69); President, Indian Coffee Board Workers Co-operative
Soceity; Vice President, Indo Soviet Cultural Society, All Kerala Karshaka Sanghom.
Sub Editor : PTI
Obituary made on 10-12-1980.
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Member, KSP since its formation and of RSP; State Committee Member and General
Secretary, R.S.P.; Participated in Quit India Movement and Goa Liberation Movement.
Expired on 05-01-2000; Obituary made on 29-03-2000.
Member, AIYF District Executive Committee and State Committee; District Vice
President, AIYF, Kasaragod.
Address: Mavuvalappil House, Elerithattu.P.O, Nileswar (via), Kasaragod, Pin 671314.
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President, Edacherry Panchayat, Badagara, Taluk Service Bank and Marketing Society;
Secretary, CPI (M) Kozhikode District Committee; President, Kozhikode District Co-
operative Bank; District President and State Committee Member, Karshaka Sanghom;
Imprisoned during 1948-51.
Expired on 03-06-2004; Obituary made on 28-07-2004.
Member, Calicut Municipal Council, KPCC and KPCC Executive, State Co-operative
Advisory Council; Imprisoned for taking part in Civil Disobedience Movement and
Freedom Struggle; Vice - President, Calicut Co-operative House Construction and
Mortgage Bank; Director, Kerala State Co-operative Marketing Federation.
Obituary made on 12-11-1970.
Secretary, Kannur District Youth Congress; Secretary & Vice President Kannur
D.C.C; President, Kannur District Congress (S); Actively associated with educational
field.
Address : Panoor Valappil House, Panoor P.O., Kannur.
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Minister for Industries & Social Welfare from 24-06-1991 to 16-03-1995, Minister for
Industries & Municipalties from 22-03-1995 to 09-05-1996, Minister for Industries &
Social Welfare from 17-05-2001 to 29-08-2004, Minister for Industries, IT & Social
Welfare from 31-08-2004 to 04-01-2005; Muslim League Legislature Party Leader from
1991 onwards; Chairman, Malappuram Municipality; General Secretary, Kerala State
Muslim League; Director, Chandrika Daily, Mohammed Koya International Foundation.
Address: Pandikadavath House, Karathode, Oorakam Melmuri P.O., Malappuram
District.
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Member, Rajya Sabha (1957-58), Organising Secretary and President Akhila Bharatha
Youvajana Sanghom, Secretary, CPI, Travancore State Committee, CPI Malabar
Committee, CPI (M) Cannanore District Committee; Working Committee Member and
Treasurer, All India Kissan Sabha; Member, CPI State Secretariat, National Council and
CPI (M) State Committee; Entered politics through INC in 1930; Took actsive part in
freedom struggle and imprisoned 3 times for 8 years; Joined CPI in 1939.
Expired on 08-06-1980; Obituary made on 01-07-1980.
Minister for Forest from 11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977, from 27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978 and
from 29-10-1978 to 18-11-1978; Chairman, Petitions Committee (1979-81); District
Secretary and State Secretary, Karshaka Sanghom; Vice President, Kerala Karshaka
Thozhilali Union; Entered politics through INC; Actively participated in textile workers
strike in 1935; Undergone imprisonment for over five years; spent two years
underground.
Expired on 16-01-2004; Obituary made on 05-02-2004.
President, Harijan Sangh; Joined Communist party through Harijan uplift work.;
Participated in Guruvayur Sathyagraha; Freedom fighter.
Expired on 03-12-1985; Obituary made on 31-03-1986.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1957-62) & (1962-67), CPI (M) Palghat District Committee;
President, Palghat Harijan Sanham; Joint Secretary, CITU Palghat District; Served in the
Indian Army from 1944 to 1948; Joined CPI in 1949.
Expired on 21-10-2000; Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
President Malappattom Panchayat; Entered politics through INC in 1939; Joined CPI in
1939; Went underground from 1946 to 1949; Undergone imprisonment in 1954, 1959
and from 1964-66
Expired On 23-11-1973 while serving as a Member; Obituary made on 01-02-1974.
126
President, Kannur D.C.C.; Participated in Quit India Movement; Convicted for 6 months;
Member, KPCC, AICC, DDC, District Prohibition Committee, District Law and Order
Implementation Committee.
Expired on 01-12-2004; Obituary made on 10-2-2005.
President, D.C.C Wyanadu; Director, Tellicherry Land Mortgage Bank; Member, KPCC;
Manager, Sarvodaya Aided Elementary School, Eachome, Wayanad; Chairman, Sevadal
Board; Freedom fighter.
Expired on 03-10-2002; Obituary made on 14-02-2003.
Vice President, Edacherry Panchayat, Poomani Rural Bank; Member, Muslim League
State Working Committee; President, Muslim League Nadapuram Mandalam.
Address : Panarath, Edacherry North P.O., Vadakara.
128
Member, Uduma Grama Panchayat; Vice President, Uduma Grama Panchayat; Member,
S.F.I., State Committee (1980-87), D.Y.F.I., State Executive Committee, C.P.I.(M)
District Committee.
Address: Bevoori House, Uduma P.O., Padinhar, Kasaragod. Pin 671 319.
Member, Malabar District Board, District Food Council and District Prohibition Council,
SSP State Committee; Associated with Kisan Movement and Co-operative movement..
Expired on 08-08-1984; Obituary made on 30-10-1984.
Secretary, CPI (M) Palghat District Committee, Palghat District Karshaka Thozhilai
Sanghom.
Expired on 29-01-1969, while serving as a member; Obituary made on 07-02-1969.
129
Member, Calicut Municipal Corporation Council, CPI (M) District Committee, WAKF
Board, Consultative Committee KSEB.
Address : C.P. House, Francis Road, Idiyangar, Kozhikode – 1.
Took part in co-operative movement of 1928; Convicted twice for participating in Civil
Disobedience movement of 1931-32; Joined Congress Socialist Party in 1935 and later in
1939 joined the Communist Party; Detained at Vellore Central Jail during Second World
War.
Obituary made on 27-11-1986.
President, Cheriyamundam Panchayat for three decades; Member, IUML since 1938,
Muslim League State Working Committee.
Expired on 24-10-1999; Obituary made on 29-12-1999.
131
Member, Rajya Sabha (1973-79) and 1988, State Secretariat and Central Committee
CPI (M), Harijan Welfare Evaluation Committee, Backward Reservation Committee,
Kerala State Housing Board; General Secretary, All India Karshaka Thozhilali Union;
Participated in the Independence Movement; Served as civilian clerk in the Army; Later
joined CPI; Detained under DIR in 1965.
Expired on 14-06-1991; Obituary made on 25-07-1991.
P. K. KUNJU Intermediate; born in 1906.
Minister for Finance from 06-03-1967 to 13-05-1969; Whip, Parliamentary Party of All
Travancore Joint Political Congress in the Travancore Assembly; Minister for Labour,
Medical and Local Bodies in 1954 (TCLA); Joint Secretary, State Muslim
League; President, Travancore-Cochin Muslim League (1952), Travancore Laboaur
Association; Treasurer, Kerala PSP (1957-61); Founder of M.S.M.(Arts and Science)
College, Kayamkulam; Took part in Vaikom Sathyagraha; Imprisoned many times in
connection with Trade union struggles; Resigned from Congress in 1940 and in 1953
joined PSP.
Chief Editor of ‘Rajyabhimani’ and ‘Swaraj' (Weeklies) and Kerala Janatha (Daily).
Expired on 24-06-1979; Obituary made on 05-10-1979.
132
Secretary and Whip, RSP Legislature Party; Joint Secretary, AIPSU Kerala State
Committee, RYF State Committee; Member, RSP State Committee, All Kerala Cashew
nut Factory Workers Federatiion (UTUC) State Council; President, RYF State
Committee, Dakshin Kerala Fishermen Union (UTUC); Working President, Kerala State
Film Development Corporation Employees Union (UTUC).
Address : Charuvilayil Veedu, Kovoor, Arinallor P.O, Kollam. Pin 690538.
134
Minister for Education, Co-operation, Industry and Labour for 2 1/2 years in Travancore
and Travancore-Cochin States; Chairman, Petitions Committee (1961–64), Trivandrum
District Land Mortgage Bank, Minimum Wages Committee for Coir; Member, All India
Committee for Development of Coir Industry in India; Member and Vice Chairman, All
India Coir Board; Imprisoned six times during participation in freedom struggle.
Obituary made on 10-12-1980.
Speaker, 6th KLA from 15-02-1980 to 01-02-1982; Subject Committee system was
introduced during his tenure; Chairman, Public Accounts Committee (1972–73), Bamboo
Corporation; Director, Plantation Corporation; Member, CPI (M) Ernakulam District
Committee Secretariat; Detained in 1975 at Viyur Central Jail for 16 months under
MISA.
Expired on 30-08-2001; Obituary made on 12-10-2001.
Minister for Local Self Government since 05-09-2004; Chairman, Committee on the
Welfare of Backward Class Communities (2001-04); Vice President, Malappuram
District Council; Executive Council Member, Kerala Agricultural University; President,
Tanur Panchayat Board; Secretary Malappuram District Muslim League Committee,
Kerala Muslim Educational Association, Malappuram District Committee.
Address : Master's House, Tanur. Pin 676302.
Member, Kerala State Muslim League Executive Committee, RTA, Kozhikode; General
Secretary and President, MSf, Malabar District (1943-44).
Sub Editor of ‘Chandrika’ Malayalam Daily.
Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
MA First Rank Holder; Convenor, KISF, Women’s Wing; State Joint Secretary, AIYF;
Vice President and Convenor, Women’s wing of AIYF; Vice Chairman, Research
Scholars Union; Member, Kerala Mahila Sangham, (NFIW) State Committee.
Address : Melathil Veedu, Charipparambu P.O., Kadakkal, Kollam. Pin 691 536.
Secretary, S.S.P. Legislature Party; Joint Secretary, S.S.P. Kerala Committee; President,
Travancore Dewaswam Board; Councilor, Trivandrum Corporation; Deputy Mayor,
Trivandrum Corporation.
Address : Plot No. 19, PTP Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram.
Member, All Travancore Congress Committee till 1948, All India Kisan Sabha, Central
Kisan Council, Kerala State Council of CPI; President and Vice President, Kerala
Karshaka Sanghom; Entered politics in 1938 as a Congress worker.
Edited 'Keralam' and 'Navalokom' Communist Party organs; Chief Editor of Congress
Party organ Yuvakeralam till 1948.
Expired on 25-009-1976; Obituary made on 15-10-1976.
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Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on September 3, 2005.
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Joint Secretary, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee; State President, K.S.U; Member,
Travancore Dewaswom Board, Director Board, Oil Palm India Ltd.; State General
Secretary, Youth Congress.
Address : Vembanattu Veedu, TC 11/1915(4), Nethaji Bose Road, Kowdiar P.O,
Thiruvananthapuram.
Began life in poor circumstances and was engaged in rearing cattle; Joined Congress
while young; Takes keen interest in the uplift of Harijans.
Obituary made on 20-04-1994.
Organised the 'Karnataka Prantheekarana Samithi' and was its General Secretary since its
inception; Vice Presidnt, All Karnataka Border Areas Action Committee; Chairman,
Navachetana Prakasana of Perdala.
Writer and Columnist in Kannada.
Publication : 'Samagama' a Kannada novel.
Expired on 07-01-1978; Obituary made on 09-02-1978.
145
Government Chief Whip (1992-96); Member, Kerala State Muslim League High Power
Committee, Calicut University Senate, Kurrwa Panchayath; General Secretary,
Malappuram District Muslim League Committee; Convenor, Muslim Youth League
Advisory Committee.
Address : Padaparamba, Vattallur P.O, (Via) Makkaraparamba, Malappuram.
Pin 676 507.
Minister for Public Works from 05-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; Chief Whip of the Ruling
United Front; Member, CPI Kerala State Council, Kerala Sports Council; One of the 3
Representatives in The Commonwealth Parliamentary Seminar at London.
Worked in the Editorial Staff of Prabhatham Daily, Malayala Rajiyam Daily and
Janayugam Daily.
Expired on 05-07-1980; Obituary made on 07-07-1980.
Member, Calicut University Senate, KPTU State Committee, State Executive of KSTA;
Secretary, K.S.T.U., Kannur District.
Address : Othayoth Thazhekunniyil Veedu, Panoor P.O., Kannur.
N. A. MAMMU HAJI SSLC, T.T.C.; Headmaster and
Journalist; Son of Shri Moossa Musaliyar; born on 28 August
1932;
Wife: O. Mariyam; 4 Sons, 2 Daughters.
Served in the Indian Army (1942-47); Member, Lok Sabha (1967–70), Guruvayur
Devaswom Committee; President, Travancore Devaswom Board (1974-77),
Kumarapuram Panchayat (1954-63); Founder Leader of P.S.P. in the State; Chairman,
PSP from 1971; Associated with Co-operative movement.
Expired on 16-06-1984; Obituary made on 21-06-1984.
President, Bharatheeya Depressed Class League (1988); Vice President, Kasargod D.C.C;
Took Part in Temple Entry Agitations in North Malabar; Member, Guruvayoor
Devaswom Board, DRDA Governing Body; Active in the campaign against
untouchability.
Expired on 03-01-1994; Obituary made on 03-03-1994.
President, Pindimana Panchayat; Entered politics through INC in 1947; Joined Kerala
Congress in 1964; Member, Kothamangalam BDC.
Address : Malayil House, Pindimana P.O., Kothamangalam (via). Pin 686698.
150
Member, AICC, KPCC, All Travancore Congress Committee; Secretary and President,
District Congress Committee; Participated in Civil Disobedience Movement; Imprisoned
for 1 1/2 years; Gave up practice in 1939 to enter into politics.
Recipient : Tamrapatra.
Obituary made on 01-04-1997.
Chief Whip, Congress Legislature Party (1957-59);; Vice Chairman, Kerala Khadi
Board; Treasurer, Kerala Congress Legislature Party in II KLA; Active worker of
Students Congress; Paricipated in Freedom Struggle
Expired on 6-6-1976; Obituary made on 15-10-1976.
Minister for Industries and Forest from 16-11-1979 to 01-12-1979; Member, University
of Kerala Senate (1969); Indian delegate Lions International Convention Atlanta city
1970; Principal St: Thomas College, Ranni; Captain Aligarh University Basket Ball
Team; Was an INC member before joining Kerala Congress in 1964.
Expired on 28-01-1991; Obituary made on 07-03-1991.
Served as Panchayat Member for 22 Years; President, DCC (S), Pathanamthitta, Amateur
Athletic Association; Volley Ball & Foot Ball Player & Champion of Athletics During
Student Life Represented Travancore University Team in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
Address : Cherukara, Theodical, Thiruvalla (Via), Pin. 689613.
152
State President, Kerala Vidyarthi Janatha (KVJ); Member, Janatha Party State Council,
Yuva Janatha, Yuva Janatha Dal, CUSAT Syndicate; Convener, LDF Pathanamthitta
District; Secretary, Kerala Prohibition Council.
Address : Thoompumpattu, Kuttampuzha, Thiruvalla. Pin 689 103.
153
Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Women and Children (1996-98) & Committee
of Women, Children and Physically Handicapped (1998-01); Member, CPI National
Council; Vice President, National Federation of Indian Women, Bharat Scouts and
Guides; President, Kerala Mahila Sanghom.
Address : Deepthi, Samoohamadhom Road, Irinjalakuda, Trissur. Pin. 680 121.
Member, CPI (M) Ernakulam District Committee; President, Karshaka Sanghom District
Committee; Agricultural Development Bank; Joined CPI in 1954; Active in Trade Union
Movement.
Expired on 18-03-2001; Obituary made on 05-07-2001.
Minister for Rural Development for 5 Years in Cochin Legislative Council, Minister
for Health from 05-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; Municipal Chairman, Thrissur for 14 Years;
Chairman, Palakkad Municipality (Twice); Member, Madras University Senate, A.I.C.C.;
Had Medical Practice in England for 11 years before returning to India.
Expired on 09-10-1960 while serving as Member; Obituary made on 10-10-1960.
154
President Ayyanthole Panchayat, District Committee Member C.P.I. (M); Vice President,
District Committee and State Committee Member, CITU; Joined Communist Party in
1951.
Expired on 08-03-2003; Obituary made on 16-06-2003.
Chairman, Committee on Public Undertaking (2001); State Vice President and Central
Working Committee Member, SFI; Member, C.P.I (M) District Committee; District
Secretary, Malsya Thozhilali Union, CITU; State Vice President, Khadi Workers
Fedeation.
Address : Aswathy, Keralapuram, Vellimon.P.O., Kundara.
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Member, AICC (1973), KPCC Executive, M.G. University Senate, Cochin University of
Science and Technology Syndicate, K.T.D.C. Director Board, Kerala Sports
Council, Indian Delegation to International Peace Conference held at Moscow (1973),
Haj Delegation (1999), Managing Committee, State Co-operative Union, First Board of
Cochin International Airport Society Ltd., Rajya Sainik Board; Whip, Congress
Legislature Party; President, KSU, Ernakulam District (1966-68), Kerala Pradesh Youth
Congress, Ernakulam District (1968-72); General Secretary, Organizing Committee,
Youth Congress State Rally held at Ernakulam in1970 which was inaugurated by Smt.
Indira Gandhi; State General Secretary, Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress(1972-75); Vice
President, DCC, Ernakulam (1976); Director, Ernakulam District Co-operative Bank.
Address : Pattarumadam, Chithra Lane, Aluva-1.
Minister for Education from 29-06-1991 to 16-03-1995, Minister for Education from 20-
04-1995 to 09-05-1996, Minister for Education since 05-09-2004; Chairman, Estimates
Committee(2001 – 2004), Deputy Leader of the IUML in the XI KLA; Member, Kerala
Agricultural University Senate, Janardhan Reddy Commission, Veerappa Moily
Commission, Minority Education Monitoring Committee, IUML State
Secreteriat; Secretary, Malappuram District Committee, IUML; State Secretary, IUML.
Recipient of Sir Syed Award for the Best Administrator and Seethi Sahib Award for the
best Parliamentarian, Karma Shresta Award for Best Administrator; Silver Elephant
Award for conducting Jamboori Meet at Palakkad; Special award by Anti-Narcotic
Council for eradicating narcotics from school premises; Award instituted by Kerala
Sastra Vedi for Promoting Science and Technology
Address: 'Soumyam', Cheruvayur P.O., Malappuram District. Pin 673 645.
156
Member, Kerala State Working Committee, Muslim League; District President, Muslim
League; Chairman, Peringamala Iqubal College Managing Committee; Active worker of
IUML from 1957.
Expired on 20-09-1989; Obituary made on 24-01-1990.
Minister for Local Administration from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-2001; Member, C.P.I. (M)
Central Committee & State Committee; Convener, L.D.F; District Secretary,
Malappuram District Committee; State Secretary and President, Kerala Karshaka
Sanghom for 15 years; All India Vice President, Kisan Sabha; President, Pazhakkattiri
Panchayat; Director, Deshabhimani Printing and Publishing Company; Pioneer in Library
Movement in Malabar area; Became a member of Communist Party in 1951; Imprisoned
several times and went underground for 16 months
Address : Chattipparambu P.O., Kodoor, Malappuram.
Member, State Working Committee, Muslim League, State Tribal Advisory Committee;
Secretary, Calicut District, Muslim League; President, Kerala Swathanthra Motor
Thozhilali Union; Chairman, Laison Committee, Calicut District.
Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
Vice President, District Co-operative Bank, Malappuram; Chairman, Kerala Stat Bamboo
Coroporation; Member, A.I.C.C., K.P.C.C. Executive committee, Rural Institute
Governing Body, Thunchan Samaraka Committee, Thirur; Member, Vice President and
Acting President of Malappuram D.C.C.; Chairman, Guruvayoor Devaswam Managing
Committee, Kerala State Bamboo Corporation.
Address : Govinda Sadan, Eramangalam Post, Ponnani, Malappuram.
159
Member, District Panchayat, District Planning Board; District President and State
Secretary of K.S.U.; General Secretary and President, District Congress Committee.
Address : C. R. A. 47, Nalanda Gardens, Murinjapalam, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram.
Pin 695 004.
Deputy Leader, Congress Parliamentary Party; Secretary and President, DCC Calicut;
General Secretary, KPCC; State Vice President, KSU; General Secretary and Treasurer,
Youth Congress Calicut.
Director, 'Veekshanam' Malayalam News Daily.
Address : N. P. House, West Kallai, Kozhikode-3.
Secretary, Muslim League Legislature Party; Joint Secretary, Muslim League State
Committee; Member, State Working Committee and Malappuram District Working
Committee Muslim League.
Expired on 06-09-1983; Obituary made on 12-12-1983.
161
Treasurer, General Secretary and President, K.S.C. State committee; Member, K.C. (J)
State Secretariat; President, Post Graduate Students Association, KC (J) Kottayam
District.
Address : Narimattathu House, Poozhikal P.O., Kaduthuruthi, Kottayam.
Joint Secretary, Muslim League, Kannur District; Member, Muslim League Executive
Committee; Vice President Wyanad District Muslim League, Wyanad Muslim orphanage
Munil; President, Kannur District Swathanthra Thozhilali Union and its State Treasurer;
Chief Editor, Avanazhi Weekly.
Address : Ambukutty-Safa Manzil , Mananthavadi.
162
Member, State Committee C.P.I. (M), CMP Polit Bureau since 1988; Secretary, CPI (M)
Wayanad District Committee; Karshaka Federation; Vice President, Kerala Co-operative
Agricultural Development Bank (1993-96); Chairman, Raidco, Kerala State Co-
operative union; Director, Pariyaram Medical College, Kannur.
Address : Marayakandy House, Pattayam, Kolacherry P.O., Kannur. Pin 670 601.
President, Thamarassery Panchayat; Member, Calicut University Senate, C.P.I. (M) State
Committee, RTA Calicut; State Vice President, C.I.T.U.
Address : Periyattu Chalil Veedu, Parappanpoil P.O., Thamarasseri (via), Calicut.
Director, K.S.R.T.C, SIDCO; State President and General Secretary of Muslim Youth
League; Kozhikode District Secretary and State Working Committee Member of Muslim
League; Member, Kerala Wakf Board.
Address: Chelampoyil, Thamarassery. P.O., Kozhikode, Pin 673573.
163
Minister for Public Works from 26-05-2001 to 29-08-2004, Minister for Public
Works since 05-09-2004; Chairman, India Vision Television Channel; President, State
Muslim Youth League; Member, Muslim League State Secretariat; Councilor, Kozhikode
Corporation.
Received C. Achutha Menon award for literature in 1998, Best singer, best painter, best
actor and best cartoonist in inter medicos festival.
Publication: "Fascisavum Sangha Parivarum".
Address: Crescent House, East Nadakkavu, Kozhikode.
164
Chairman, Committee on Local Fund Accounts from 2004, Member of first senate of
M.G. University, Director Board of K.S.F.E.; Member, Kerala University
Senate; General Secretary (1979) and President of K.S.U (1980), Kerala Pradesh Youth
Congress (1982-89); Vice President, Akhila Kerala Balajana Sakhyam; Member, Indian
Youth Congress National Council, KPCC and AICC.
Address : Vypuvilayil-Vijayanjali, Cherukole P.O., Mavelikkara, Alappuzha.
PIRAPPANCODE MURALI Graduate, B.Ed; Teacher, Poet
and dramatist; Son of Shri Sankaranarayana Kurup and Smt.
L. Bharathy Amma; born on 12 June 1943; Wife: P. Radha
Devi; 1 Daughter.
Founder Director, The Harijan Sevak Sang; President, Kerala Plantation Depressed Class
League; President, All Kerala Cardamom Plantation Union; Secretary, South Indian
Plantation Workers Union; Organised Co-operative Societies for Plantation Labourers;
Participated in Freedom Movement; Estate Supervisor and Agriculturist.
Address : Chundvvarai Estate, Sethuparvathipuram Post, Munnar.
President, Muslim League Palghat District; Vice President, Muslim League Palaghat
District; Member, Muslim League State Committee from 1960 onwards; Malabar District
Board 1954-57.
Publications : Fathul Fuhool Arabic Risala.
Expired on 13-02-2004; Obituary made on 28-7-2004.
166
Member, Kerala Pradesh B.S.S. State Committee; A.I.R. Programme Committee, Served
as member board of examination, University of Kerala and Gandhiji; Chair Person,
Nedumangad Municipality (1995-00).
Address : Shalimar Bunglow, Arasuparambu, Nedumangadu.
167
Deputy Speaker from 15-03-1960 to 10-09-1964; Member, AICC, KPCC, Kerala State
Women’s Commission; Organised Women's Associations & Co-operative Societies;
Entered politics in 1954 after enrolling as an advocate; Had a brilliant academic career.
Address : TC 14/1376-2, Zenith, Behind RBI, Bakery Junction, Trivandrum - 33.
K. K. NAIR Post Graduate; Son of Shri Krishna Pillai and
Smt. Lakshmi Amma; born on 02 February 1931.
Member, 3rd KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent],
4th KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent],
6th KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent],
7th KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent (UDF)],
8th KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent (UDF)],
9th KLA [Pathanamthitta-Independent (UDF)],
10th KLA [Pathanamthitta-INC],
11th KLA [Pathanamthitta-INC].
Joined Communist Party in 1959; Member, CPI (M) till 1979; President, Pathanamthitta
Plantations Labour Union; Chairman and President, Malanadu Trade Union Congress.
Played unique part in the formation of Pathanamthitta District in 1982; Vice President,
Kollam District Karshaka Sanghom.
Wrote political essays during the period of ‘Vimochana Samaram’
Publications : "Niyamasabhayum Niyojakamandalavum", "Bharana Yanthravum karshika
Samrakshanavum".
Address: Pioneer Cottage, Mundukottackal P.O., Pathanamthitta, Pin 689 649.
President, Velur Panchayat, Thrissur District Co-operative Bank; Member, CPI (M) State
Committee, Jail Advisory Committee, Central Jail, Viyyoor, Regional Transport
Authority, CPI (M) Thrissur District Secretariat; Assistant Secretary CPI (M) Legislature
Party; Chairman, Kerala State Co-operative Pension Board; Vice Chairman, Kerala Kala
Mandalam.
Publications : 'Thalangal, Thala Vadyangal' .
Address : "Pushpakom", Poothole, Thrissur. Pin 680004.
168
Member, RSP Kollam District Committee, RSP Kerala State Committee; Founder
member, GPTA; Secretary, All Kerala Cashew Workers Federation; Worked as Teacher
for over 20 years.
Address : Charinjavila Puthen Veedu, Ayikunnam (Via), Sooranadu, Sasthamcotta P.O.,
Kollam.
;Minister for Forest & Transport from 17-02-2000 to 13-05-2001; State President, Youth
Congress (Nijalingappa); General Secretary, Youth Congress, Kozhikode District
Congress, Janatha Party and Janatha Dal; Deputy Leader, Janatha Dal Parliamentary
Party; Started political activities in 1958 as Congress Seva Dal volunteer
Address : Puthiyottil House, Near Railway Station, Badagara P. O., Kozhikodu District.
169
Member, CPI (M) Kannur District Secretariat, State Committee; President, Kannur District Committee, Kerala
Karshaka Sanghom; Secretary, Kerala Khadi Workers Union; Vice President, AKG Memorial Co-operative
Hospital, Kannur; Joined Communist Party in 1947.
Expired on 05-06-1996; Obituary made on 29-07-1996.
170
State President, Sidhanar Service Society; State Convenor, Kerala Harijan Samyuktha
Samithi; District President, DGTA and GGTO; Acting President, All Keral Karshaka
Thozhilali Federation; Writer.
Expired on 06-06-1996; Obituary made on 29-07-1996.
Member, CPI (M) Palakkad District Committee, DYFI State Committee; President,
Karshaka Sanghom, Palakkad; Chairman, Palakkad Co-operative Urban Bank.
Address : Neduvakkad House, Kannadi.P.O., Palakkad. Pin 678701.
172
Member, CPI Kasargod District Council; District Committee Member, All India Peace
and Solidarity Organisation; Associated with Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad; Served in
the Postal department before becoming a Member of the Assembly
Address : Bengalam P.O., Nileswar (via), Kasargod.
President, Meppayur Village Panchayat since 1953; General Secretary, State PSP;
Member, UDF Co-ordination Committee; Vice President, State Housing Federation;
Manager Perambra Higher Secondary School; Was a worker of Student Congress; Joined
the Indian National Congress and later the Indian Socialist Party.
Expired on 08-06-2003; Obituary made on 18-07-2003.
Secretary, PSP Parliamentary Party; State Secretary, Kerala State Bharat Scouts and
Guides (1993-94); President, Trivandrum District Kisan Panchayat; Was a Teacher
during 1944-46; Served in the Armed forces during 1946-47 as an officer and later in the
Travancore State forces during 1947-49.
Address : Advocate, Kalyan Mandir, Neyyattinkara P.O.
E. K. NAYANAR SSLC; Writer and Journalist; Son of Shri
Govindan Nambiar; born on 09 December 1919;
Wife: K. P. Sarada Teacher; 2 Sons, 2 Daughters.
Member, 4th KLA [Irrikur-CPI (M)], (Elected in bye-election
held on 3-5-1974 and took oath on 16-5-1974),
6th KLA [Malampuzha-CPI (M)],
7th KLA [Malampuzha-CPI (M)],
8th KLA [Thrikkaripur-CPI (M)],
9th KLA [Thrikkaripur-CPI (M)],
10th KLA [Tellicherry-CPI (M)] (Elected in bye-election held
on 13-10-1996 and took oath on 22-10-1996).
Member, Lok Sabha (1967-70); Chief Minister from 25 –01-1980 to 20-10-1981, from 26-03-1987 to 17-06-
1991 and from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-2001; Opposition Leader (1981-82), (1982-87) and (1991-92); Chairman,
Committee of Privileges (1980-81); Was the Longest served Chief Minister (3 Terms- 4010 Days); Secretary,
CPI (M) State Committee; Member, CPI (M) Polit Bureau.
Editor: Desabhimani (1982-87) & (1991-96); Published about 20 Books; Joined Communist movement at the
age of 20; Participant of Aaron Mill Strike, Kayyur, Peasant uprising and Morazha struggle; Went underground
for about nine years in this regard; Imprisoned for about three years when the Communist Party was banned;
Detained under PD Act for three years during 1964-67.
Expired on 19-05-2004; Obituary made on 25-06-2004.
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Chairman, Committee on Assurance (1970-71), KFC and served as its Director for 8
years; Member, Kerala University Syndicate and Senate; Mayor, Trivandrum Corporation
(1963-64); President, Kerala Co-operative Central Land Mortgage Bank (1969-76);
Director, Kerala Co-operative Central Bank.
Expired on 23-11-1984; Obituary made on 18-03-1985.
President, Trichur District Congress Committee; Member, AICC (1922-32); One of the
Founder Directors, Mathrubhumi Daily; Secretary, Kerala Khadi Board; Took part in
Vaikom Satyagraha, Salt Sathyagragha, Foreign Cloth Shop Picketing, Quit India
Movement etc; Arrested and imprisoned 4 times; Lost the right ear because of the Lathi
charge in Kannur Jail; Actively involved in Khadi and Village Industries Movement and
in Community Development Programmes.
Obituary made on 09-02-1982.
176
Served in the British Royal Navy during World War II; Was an employee in FACT; Later
actively associated with Trade union activities and Kerala Karshaka Sanghom.
Address : Panagai House, Boat Jetty Road, Vaduthala, Kochi –23.
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State Secretary, Socialist Party; District Secretary, S.S.P, Trivandrum; Joint Secretary,
S.S.P, Kerala Committee; Secretary and Whip, S.S.P Parliamentary Party; President,
ISRO Labour union, CTCRI Labour union; Served in the Royal Indian Army for four
years before joining politics in 1952; Undergone imprisonment several times.
Editor : ‘Porattam’ (Malayalam Monthly).
Address : T.C. 50/901 (44), Kalady, Karamana P.O., Thiruvananthapuram-2.
Member, D.Y.F.I , Palakkad District Executive Committee; SFI Member from 1974;
District President, S.F.I. (1985); Council and Executive Member, Calicut University
Union.
Address : 12/183, Sultanpet, Palakkad–1.
178
Chief Minister since 31 August 2004; Minister for Labour from 11-04-1977 to
25-04-1977, Minister for Labour and Housing from 27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978; Minister
for Home, Agriculture, Co-operation and Forests from 28-12-1981 to 17-03-1982;
Minister for Finance from 02-07-1991 to 22-06-1994; Chairman, Committee on Public
Accounts (1996-98); President, All Kerala Balajana Sakhyam (1961-62), K.S.U (1967-
69), Youth Congress (1970-71) and of various Trade Unions; Member, A.I.C.C;
Convenor, U.D.F.
Address : Karottu-Vallakkalil, Puthuppally, Kottayam.
Member, S.S.P. State Executive, Kisan Panchayath, S.S.P. Alleppey District Committee;
Vice President, State PSTA; Convenor, District Joint Teacher’s Council; District
President, Janatadal; President of several trade unions; Imprisoned many times.
Recipient of National Teachers’ Award.
Expired on 11-04-2002; Obituary made on 17-06-2002.
179
President, DYFI, Pathanamthitta District; State Vice President, DYFI; Member, DYFI
Central Executive Committee, CPI (M) Pathanamthitta District Committee; District
Secretary, Pathanamthitta Grandha Sala Sangham; Joint Secretary, Kerala Karshaka
Sangham, Pathanamthitta.
Address : Keechem Parampil, Aranmula.P.O., Pathanamthitta.
A. K. PADMANABHAN Graduate; BEd; Teacher; Son of Shri
Theyyolakandy Kunhappa Nambiar and Smt. Ammalu Amma; born
on 15 July 1943; Wife : K. Remani; 3 Daughters.
General Secretary, Kerala N.G.O. Union (1965-82), FSETO (1973-82), Zonal Secretary,
All India State Government Employees Federation (1965); Actively associated in
organising Government employees since 1955.
Expired on 18-09-1990; Obituary made on 17-12-1990.
Participated in political and students movements; Engaged in Municipal and trade union
activities; Co-operator.
Expired on 26-11-2002; Obituary made on 14-02-2003.
Minister for Public Works from 04-02-1976 to 25-03-1977, Minister for Works from
11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977, Minister for Works and Sports from 27-04-1977 to
27-10-1978 and from 29-10-1978 to 07-10-1979, Minister for Labour & Rehabilitation from 02-04-1987 to 17-
06-1991; Government Chief Whip; Chief Whip, Opposition Parties; Member, RSP State and Central
Committees; Secretary, RSP Kerala Committee; General Secrtary, RSP; Councilor, Trivandrum Corporation;
General Secretary, Kerala United Trade Union Congress; President, Kerala Sports Council; Kerala Volley ball
Association; Actively participated in national movement under state congress leadership in the 1940’s; Went
underground after Pettah police firing in 1947; Joined KSP and later RSP.
Address : Indu Mahal, Pettah, Thiruvananthapuram-24.
Minister for Food and Civil Supplies from 16-05-1972 to 25-03-1977; President,
Ernakulam District Congress Committee; Treasurer, K.P.C.C.; Vice President, K.P.C.C.;
Chairman, GCDA; Gave up studies in 1942 to participate in Quit India Movement;
Joined INC in the same year.
Address : Puthenveetil, Chottanikkara P.O., Ernakulam.
183
Member, State Committee, Kerala Congress for six years, Thirumaradi Panchayat; State
Organiser, All Kerala Balajanasakhyam; President, Vanitha Parishat, Mahila Samajam;
Secretary, Malankara Orthodox Women’s Association.
Expired on 08-10-1998; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
184
Joined Royal Engineers in the British Navy in France during World War I; Later worked
as power engineer in various firms in England and India till 1959.
Obituary made on 30-03-1981.
Member, C.P.I. Kollam District Committee, C.P.I. State Council, C.P.I State Executive
Committee, National Executive Committee, All India Kissan Sabha; General Secretary,
Kerala Karshaka Sangham; President, Central Council, Travancore Student’s Congress,
Kerala State Malayora Karshaka Sanghom; Led many student’s agitations during
freedom struggle and was arrested twice; Became a member of Communist Party in 1952.
Expired on 12-07-2000; Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
Whip, Janatha Legislature Party; District Secretary, Socialist Party, Kottayam; Chairman,
Kerala State Handloom Workers Welfare Fund Board; General Secretary, Transport
Workers Federation; Executive Committee Member, India-China Friendship Association
and visited China as a member of the delegation; Joined ISP in 1951 and later PSP and
Socialist Party in 1955.
Editor and Publisher : "Mattam" and "Samaj Vadi".
Address : Puthuvail House, Mariathuruth P.O., Kottayam.
185
Minister for Food & Agriculture from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962 and from
26-09-1962 to 10-09-1964; Partcipated in freedom movement; Joined INC in 1935;
Underwent imprisonment in 1946; Actively involved in Co-operation movement.
Expired on 17-11-1983; Obituary made on 12-12-1983.
Member, C.P.I.(M) Alappuzha District Committee. Expelled from school in 1940 for
participating in Congress movement; Joined Travancore State Congress in 1941 and later
joinde CPI in 1943; participated in Vayalar Struggle and went underground for two years;
associated with SNDP Yogam and Karshaka Thozhilali Union and Chethu Thozhilali
Union; President, Thuravoor Panchayat.
Obituary made on 30-03-1995.
Minister for Health & Electricity from 18-11-1978 to 07-10-1979; Member, C.P.I. State
Executive Committee, All India Student’s Federation, AITUC General Council, Kerala
Tody Workers Welfare Fund Director Board; Took part in freedom movement;
Imprisoned for 3 ½ years; Went underground for 1 ½ years; Joined CPI in 1942; Trade
Union Leader; Espoused the cause of coir workers and Kole cultivators; Associated with
co-operative movement; Vice-President and President, Kerala State Chethuthozhilali
Federation; Vice- President, KSTUC.
Address : Koonath House, Anthikkad P.O., Pin. 680641.
Joined the Communist Party in 1946; Chairman, Attingal Municipal Council in 1953 and
1956; Participated in the Transport Workers strike in 1954; Member, Kerala University
Senate, Arbitration Board, Labour Department, Industrial Relations Board, Municipal
Law Unification Committee; High Power Watchdog Committee of Government
(1975-76); President, Kumaran Asan Memorial , Kayikkara; Chairman, KILE, Minimum
Wages Committee, Madhya Vyavasaya Thozhilali Union; Visited Cuba and Patric
Lumumba University, Moscow at the invitation of their cultural departments; Secretary,
CBSE Schools, Sivagiri and Alwaye.
Authored six books including ‘Vyavasaya Bhandathinulla Mukhavura’, ‘ Kalathinotha
Police’.
Recipient of Indira Priyadarsini Vrikshamitra Award in 1992.
Address : Gokulam, Parippally.
President, Azhikode Panchayat for 8 years, Kannur Block Panchayat; Member, State
Development Council, CPI (M) District Secretariat; General Secretary, Kerala Block
Panchayats Association; Chairman, Kannur Co-operative Spinning Mills (2000-01); State
Secretary, Balasangam; State Vice-President, DYFI; Started career as a teacher in 1979.
Address : Pranavam, Azhicode P.O., South Kannur. Pin – 690006.
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Minister for Food and Civil Supplies from 05-09-2004 onwards; Vice President, KSU (I)
State Committee; General Secretary, Youth Congress State Committee (1988-92); Joint
Secretary, KPCC (I) (1997-01); Member, KPCC (1992); Vice-President DCC (I),
Pathanamthitta (1993); Director, Kerala State Co-operative Bank, Kerala State
Co-operative Rubber Marketing Federation; Working President, Kerala Private College
Employees Association; General Secretary, Kerala State Electricity Employees Congress.
Address : Ramanilayam, Adoor P.O., Pathanamthitta. Pin 691 523.
Member, Kerala University Senate twice, Kollam DCC and KPCC; Executive Member,
KPCC; State Treasurer, KSU (1981-82); Executive Member, Youth Congress (1986-
88); State General Secretary, KSU, (1985-86), Youth Congress (1988-2000); KSU State
Executive Member (1979-80); KSU Kalavedhi, State Convenor (1983-84); President,
Peroor Service Co-operative Bank.
Address : Krishna Kripa, Palace Ward, Thevally P.O., Kollam. Pin 691 009.
189
State Vice President, KSU; General Secretary, District Youth Congress; Vice President
and President, KSU Thrissur District Committee; Member, Thrissur District Congress
Committee, Wild life Advisory Board, Kerala Sports Council, Calicut University Senate;
Kerala Kala Mandalam Executive Committee; Editor, ‘Agrya Magazine’; Also writes
stories and poems.
Address: Thottungal House, Talikulam P.O., Thrissur. Pin. 680 569.
Entered politics in 1948 as an active worker of Communist Party; Member, CPI (M)
Kasargod District Committee; Actively involved in cultural activities also.
Address : Advocate, Kanhangad P.O., Kannur.
190
Drawn to politics after marriage in 1960; Influenced and inspired her husband in his
political and social activities; Associated with many women’s organisations.
Address : Panavelil House, Angadi.P.O., Ranni.
192
State President, Madhya Varjana Samithi; Chairperson, Adivasi Vikas Parishad; Working
Committee Member, Democratic India Congress; Actively involved in social work,
especially among scheduled caste, scheduled tribes and other weaker sections of the
society.
Address: Kariampadi House, Kalanadikolli. P.O., Pulpally, Wayanad.
Minister for Water Resources & Parliamentary Affairs since 05-09-2004 with additional
charge of Forests from 9-2-2005; Secretary, Congress Legislature Party; Chairman,
Kerala University Union (1973); Member, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Syndicate (1986-96), Kerala University Senate, AICC, KPCC Election Committee;
General Secretary, All Kerala Balajana Sakhyam (1966), KSU (1969), Kerala Universiry
Union (1971), Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress (1978), KPCC (1984-01); State President,
Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress (1982), KSU (1974); President, KSU District Committee
(1967), Kerala State Transport Workers Union.
Address : Manasa, Kodimatha, Kottayam.
194
Minister for Food, Transport & House Rent Control (1946-47) in Madras State; Member,
AICC from its beginning till 1952; President DCC, Malabar till it was dissolved;
Member, KPCC (1950-60), Became one of the Ist members of Congress in 1919; Set up
Practice at Palghat as early as 1917.
Obituary made on 03-03-1972.
K. P. RAGHAVA PODUVAL B.Sc. BL; Advocate; Son of
Shri K.P. Govindan Nair and Smt.K.P. Lakshmi Amma;
born on 15 June 1928; Wife P.A. Kamalakshi Amma;
1 Son, 5 Daughters.
Minister for Labour & Housing from 29-10-1978 to 07-10-1979; Chairman, Committee
on Public Undertakings (1977-79), Committee on Private Members’ Bills and
Resolutions (1973–74), Committee on Government Assurances (1974–75), Mattanchery
Municipal Council (1956-76); Chief Whip, Congress Legislature Party; Member, AICC,
Cochin Port Trust; Formed Cochin Thuramugha Thozhilali Union; Founder Member, All
India Port and Duck Workers Federation (1952); First Secretary, Chamber of Municipal
Chairman; President, SNDP Yogam.
Expired on 20-12-1994; Obituary made on 30-03-1995.
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Took part in national movement and joined INC in 1932; Later joined Congress Socialist
Party in 1934 and CPI in 1940; Imprisoned seven times; Participated in Malabar Teachers
agitation 1938 resulting in the cancellation of teachers certificate.
Expired on 15-03-1991; Obituary made on 20-03-1991.
197
Entered Politics in 1958; Arrested and imprisoned in Tihar Central Jail (1969); Had to
suffer atrocities while in police custody.
Address : Munnad P.O., Chengala (via), Kasaragod.
Minister for Harijan Welfare & Housing from 04-10-1970 to 24-09-1971, Minister
for Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Development from 02-04-1987 to 17-06-1991;
Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (1976),
SC/ST Monitoring and Steering Committee (9th Five Year Plan, Kerala); President and
Patron K.P.M.S; General Convenor, SC/ST Joint Council; General Secretary, Pulayar
Mahasabha; Member, C.P.I., State Secretariat, National Council, Secretary & President,
Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Federation; Assistant Secretary, Bharathiya Chethu
Masdoor Union.
Managing Editor: Nayalapam (Monthly)
Expired on 19-8-2005.
Chairman, House Committee (1984-87); Member, KPCC, K.P.C.C. & INTUC State
Executive Committee, Coir Advisory Committee, Minimum Wages Committee; District
President, INTUC, Kattoor Panchayat for seven years, Karalam Panchayat for two
years; Vice President, Trichur DCC (I), Karshaka Thozhilali Federation, Toddy Tappers
State Committee; Chairman, Toddy Welfare Fund Board; Joined INC in1947;
Expired on 14-05-2005; Obituary made on 11-8-2005.
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Governor, Meghalaya (1989–90); Minister of State for External Affairs, Law and Company Affairs,
Union Cabinet (1982-84); Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts (1979-81), Committee on
Estimates (1972–73), Committee on Subordinate Legislation (1975–76); Deputy Leader, Congress
Legislature Party; Member, Lok Sabha (1980–84), A.I.C.C., Cochin University Senate, State and
Central Wakf Board Minister for Health, Agriculture and Industries in Travancore Cochin during 1955-
56; President, D.C.C.; Vice President, K.P.C.C.; Chairman, T.K.M. College of Engineering Governing
Council; Director, IIT, Hindustan Insecticides; Treasurer, Kerala Grandhasala Sangham.
Managing Editor, Prabhatham Daily.
Expired on 31-08-1995; Obituary made on 06-03-1996.
Member, Cannanore District Committee, CPI (M); Joined CPI in 1956 and later stood in
the CPI (M); Arrested under DIR in 1965 and imprisoned.
Obituary made on 17-03-1986.
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President, Punalur Panchayat; Joined INC in 1940; Active worker of Students Federation;
Later joined Government service in the Income Tax Department; Subsequently dismissed
from service; Undergone imprisonment during 1949-50; Harikatha artist besides being a
trade union leader.
Expired on 02-01-1993; Obituary made on 04-02-1993.
Senior Government Pleader in the High Court (1987-91), State Vice President, JSS from
1995; Legal Advisor, SNDP Yogam, SN Trust, Sivagiri Dharmasanghom Trust and
Pathanamthitta Municipality; Member, SN Trust Board; General Secretary, Employees
Federation of India; Appeared for several prominent cases in the High Court and
Supreme Court.
Address : H. No. 46, Giri Nagar, Cochin – 20.
Member, Executive Committee and District Committee, KSYF, District Council, Kisan
Sabha District Executive; President, Vellukara Panchayat; Notary Public and Legal
Advisor to Leading Organisations; Active worker of Students Federation.
Expired on 11-11-2000; Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
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Member, Kottayam District Committee, CPI (M); Founder Leader, Peermade Thottam
Thozhilali Union; General Secretary, Kerala Plantation Labour Federation; Joint
Secretary, CITU, Kerala State Committee; President and General Secretary, KSEB
Workers Association.
Expired on 06-11-1974; Obituary made on 24-02-1975.
Entered politics through INC in 1957; Took the initiative for educating Adivasi people;
Chairman, Bamboo Corporation; Vice President, KPCC; Member, Kerala State SC and
ST Development Corporation, Kerala State Tribal Advisory Board, BDC, Harijan
Advisory Committee.
Obituary made on 24-01-1990.
Minister for Agriculture from 20-05-1996 to 29-05-1997; Member, State Council of CPI,
CPI State Executive; Secretary, Thrissur District Committee, CPI; President, CWRDM
Employees Association, KSFE Employees Association; Executive Member, State
Fishermen’s Federation, State Coir Workers Federation.
Expired on 29-05-1997 while serving as Minister; Obituary made on 23-06-1997.
Chairman, House Committee (1998- 01). Member, CPI (M) District Committee; District
Secretary and Central Committee Member, DYFI; State Committee Member, Kerala
Karshaka Sanghom.
Address: Karumanasseri, Kizhankkanchery.P.O, Palakkad.
Member, CPI State Council, CUSAT Senate; General Secretary, AIYF Kerala State
Committee;; Actively associated with Cashew workers union and Co-operative
movement.
Address : Easwara Vilasam, Kottarakkara P.O.
202
CPI Legislature Party Leader; Member, CPI State Executive, General Council, Kerala
Agricultural University Executive Committee and Finance Committee, KTDC Director
Board, Abkari Workers Welfare Fund Board, Sainik Board, Trichur District Sports
Council, CPI State Executive; Central Committee Member and State Secretary AITUC;
National Working Committee Member, AITUC; President, Motor Workers’ Federation,
Agriculture University Labour Association, Farm Workers Association; District
Secretary, State General Secretary, AISF; Student’s Representative of Calicut University
Senate.
Recipient of Akhileswaram Master Award and Dr. Ambedkar Award for meritorious
service.
Address : Kuttankulangara, Punkunnam P.O, Thrissur 2.
President, Ranni Marketing Co-Operative Society; Member, CPI (M) District Secretariat
from1996; Councillor, University Union; Bureau Cheaf, Deshabhimani, Pathanamthitta;
State President, SIDCO Union; Acted in three Telefilms.
Address : Kandanattu, Angadi P.O., Ranni. Pin 689 674.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1971-77) & (1977-79), Parliament PAC (1976-77), AICC;
President DCC, Cannanore; State President, Congress (S); General Secretary, KSU
Kannur District and State Committee; President, KSU (1969); Convenor, District Youth
Congress Kannur; Vice President, Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress.
Address : Vannathikadavu, P.O. Kadannappalli, Mandur (via), Cannanore.
Member, CPI National Council; State Vice President, AISF; State President, AIYF; Won
the State award for best drama writer in 1988; Member, Sahitya Academy and
Chalachithra Academy; Editor: Janayugam Weekly.
Writer of Dramas and Verses; "Enikku Maranamilla" and "Manasaputhri" (Dramas)
Expired on 18-4-2005; Obituary made on 11-8-2005.
204
Minister for Food And Civil Supplies from 03-05-1995 to 09-05-1996; Minister
for Health since 05-09-2004; Secretary, Congress Legislature Party (1982-87); Secretary,
DCC Kozhikode (1969-74); Vice President, State INTUC (1978); General Secretary,
K.P.C.C. (1984); President, Kozhikode DCC (1980); Member, Indian Coffee Board;
President, Water Authority Employees Association, CWDRM Employees Association,
Kerala State Retail Ration Dealers Association.
Address: Indira Bhavan, Kariyambadi P.O., Meenangadi, Wayanad.
Minister for Health from 01-09-1983 to 29-05-1985; One of the Founder Members of
NDP; Chairman, Alleppey Municipal Council (1968-79); President, District Committee
and Member State Executive, NDP; Member, Director Board; Treasurer, NSS.
Expired on 28-02-2004.
Minister for Health from 24-06-1991 to 05-06-1994; Member, Kerala University Senate;
Sympathiser of Communist movement in the beginning; Later joined Kerala Congress
and NDP; Registrar NSS Karayogams; Member, NSS Director Board.
Address : Kondoor House, Parumala Post, (Via) Mannar.
205
Entered politics through students movement; Member, IENS and AINEC; Managing
Editor, Kerala Patrika Daily, Trivandrum.
Address : Viruthiyathuthoppil, Kallissery.P.O., Chengannur.
Member, Travancore Devaswom Board during 1971; Actively involved in Social and
Cultural activities.
Expired on 03-08-1971; Obituary made on 06-08-1971.
Minister for Irrigation & Labour from 07-01-1998 to 13-05-2001; Founder member of
R.S.P.; Member, R.S.P. National Committee, State Secretariat; Secretary, RSP Kollam
District Committee; Director, Kerala State Co-operative Bank, Kerala State Warehousing
Corporation, Kerala State Coir Markting Federation; Editor, “Pravaham” fortnightly.
Address : Parvathi Mandiram, Olayil, Thevaly P.O., Kollam.
206
President, State Library Council; Noted Poet; Associated with environment protection movement,
illiteracy eradication programme, Civil Rights Protection Movement; President, Asan Memorial
Association, Kayikkara; Vice President, Purogamana Kala Sahithya Sanghom; Recipient of several
prestigious awards.
Publications : Kadammanittayude Kavithakal (Poems); Godoyekathu, (Translation of Waiting for
Godot, Drama by Samuel Becket), Sooryasila (Translation of Sunstone, Poems by Octovio Paz);
Karutha Koppa (Translation of Poems of different world poets); Essay: Vellivelicham.
Address : Koippallil House, Vallicode P.O., Pathanamthitta District, Pin 689659.
N. RAMAKRISHNAN ESLC; Son of Shri K. Raghavan; born
on 13 March 1941; Wife : C. K. Jayalekshmi; 1 Son, 2 Daughters.
Minister for Labour from 02-07-1991 to 16-03-1995; General Secretary, Youth Congress, K.P.C.C.
(I).; President D.C.C. Kannur (1971-88); Chairman, Kannur Municipality Development Corporation,
Chairman’s Chamber; Member, Khadi and Village Industries Board, National Handloom Development
Corporation, SSI Board.
Address : Vrindavan, Talap, Kannur.
T. K. RAMAKRISHNAN Kavyabhushan; Son of Shri
Kunjaman; born in 1922; Wife : Gouri; 1 Son, 4 Daughters.
Member, 1st KLA [Kanayannur-CPI], 2nd KLA [Kanayannur-CPI],
3rd KLA [Thrippunnithura-CPI (M)], 5th KLA [Thripunithura-CPI (M)],
6th KLA [Thrippunithura-CPI (M)], 8th KLA [Kottayam-CPI (M)] (Elected
in the-election held on 3-6-1987 and took oath on 4-6-1987), 9th KLA
[Kottayam-CPI (M)], 10th KLA [Kottayam-CPI (M)].
Minister for Home from 25-01-1980 to 20-10-1981, Minister for Co-operation & Fisheries from 02-04-
1987 to 17-06-1991, Minister for Fisheries and Rural Development from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-
2001; Opposition Leader from 13-08-1979 to 11-10-1979; Chairman, Committee on Assurances (1979-
81); Opposition Chief Whip (1991-96); Member, C.P.I. (M) Central Committee and State Secretariat;
President, Thripunithura Panchayath; Vice President and Joint Secretary, All India Kisan Sabha;
Secretary, CPI (M) Kottayam District Committee, Kerala Karshaka Sanghom; Entered politics in 1942
through INC; Joined CPI in 1942; Imprisoned several times.
Publications : Kallile Theeporikal (Novel), Deshadrohikal (Drama).
Address : Eroor, Thrippunithura, Ernakulam.
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Speaker - 9th KLA from 27-06-1995 to 28-05-1996, 11th KLA since 16-09-2004,
Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table (1998 – 2001), Committee on Official
Language (2003–04); Legal Advisor in various Institutions and Banks; Member, NSS
Director Board (1975-84); District Secretary of the Undivided Congress
(1967-69); General Secretary, NDP (1978-84); Chairman, NDP (1984-86); President,
Trichur District Printing and Publishing Co-operative Society (Kairali); Manager,
Vivekodayam Higher Secondary School, Trichur.
Associated with Literary Movement for the last 40 years; Was a Member of State Library
Council.
Address: Krishnakripa, Ayyanthole, Civil Line Road, Thrissur
P. RAMALINGAM Son of Shri Parasurama Iyer and
Smt. Ananthalakshmi Ammal; born in February 1916; 3 Sons,
2 Daughters.
Freedom Fighter; Member, Council of AITUC, C.P.I. State Council, Plantation Labour
Committee, Rubber Board, Central Wage Board for Rubber Industry; President,
Kunnathoor Thottam Thozhilaly Union, Kerala Plantation Labour Federation; Joined
Travancore State Congress in 1939; Later joined CPI in 1941.
Address : Kavadikizhakka Matom, Theppupara. P.O., Parakode (via), Quilon District.
208
Member, Public Service Commission, Muslim League Secretariat; Vice Chairman, Khadi
Board; President, Vengara Panchayath; Kerala School Teacher’s Union; Actively
involved in Harijan upliftment work.
Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
Member, Malabar District Board (1956); Entered politics in 1930; Actively participated
in Civil Disobedience Movement; Joined Communist Party in 1939; Imprisoned for over
seven years; Went underground for two years; Actively involved in organising farmers.
Expired on 14-7-1994; Obituary made on 22-07-1994.
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General Secretary, DCC (I); Was an employee in Health Department before entering
politics in 1967; Chairman, BDC; Associated with co-operative movement.
Expired on 20-11-1987; Obituary made on 23-11-1987.
Minister for Rural Development from 05-06-1986 to 25-03-1987; Member, Lok Sabha
(1989-91), (1991-96), (1996-97), and (1999-04); President, KPCC, Kerala Youth
Congress, Indian Youth Congress, Indo GDR Friendly Society; Vice President, General
Secretary and President, K.S.U.; All India President, NSUI ; Secretary, AICC; Member,
Congress Working Committee, Kerala University Senate; Secretary General,
International NAM Youth Conference (1985).
Address : Kottoor Kizhakkethil, Thripperumthura. P.O., Chennithala, Mavelikkara,
Alleppy Dist.
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Served in the Posts and Telegraphs Department for 14 years; Resigned in 1965 and joined
politics; Actively involved in upliftment of Harijans and Adivasis; General Secretary,
Malabar Regional Harijan Samajam.
Address: Thekkeyil House, Pantheeramkav.
P. RAVEENDRAN BA, BL; Son of Shri Padmanabhan;
born on 14 November 1922; Wife: K. Savithrikutty;
1 Daughter.
Member, Kerala State Film Award Committee, Southern Regional Film Award
Committee, Indian Coffee Board; Director, K.S.C.D.C.; Vice President, K.S.U. State
Committee, Kollam D.C.C. (U) (1979-80); President, Kollam D.C.C.(U); Secretary,
Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress Committee, Trivandrum Press Club.
Publications : Rakkilikal, Thokkum Pookkalum, Varantharapilly Garjikkunnu (collection
of poems).
Expired on 08-02-1990; Obituary made on 09-02-1990.
Member, CPI State Council, The Kerala Vanitha Commission (1993-98); President,
Kerala Mahila Sangham (1969-83); Chairperson, Plantation Corporation (1964-69), The
Housing Board (1975-78); Member, Rubber Board for 10 years; Entered politics through
Travancore State Congress in 1939; Actively participated in freedom movement;
Imprisoned for about three years; Joined CPI in 1948
Address: Pulimoottil, Kunnamthanam P.O., Pathanamthita Dist. Pin 689581.
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Member, Kerala State Legal Aid and Advisory Board; General Secretary and President of
KSC (M); Member , M.G. University Volley Ball Team; Won Medals in Wrestling and
High Jump; Associated with Co-operative movement.
Publications : "K. M. Mani, Pothupravarthakarkku Oru Mathruka"
Address: Cherunilathuchalil House, Chakkampuzha.P.O., Pala, Kottayam.
Member, CPI (M) District Secretariat and State Committee, District Sports Council;
Secretary, Karshaka Thozhilali Union, Alappuzha.
Address: Chungapurakkal, Kuppappuram. P.O. Alapuzha – 11.
215
Member, Trivandrum District Committee Secretariat and Kerala State Committee, CPI,
Kerala Karshaka Sanghom Working Committee.; Served in the Indian Army for seven
years and later in the PWD during 1938-40; Undergone imprisonment several times.
Expired on 20-01-1989; Obituary made on 24-1-1989.
Member, CPI (M) Ernakulam Committee, Kerala Orphanage Control Board, Vengoor
Grama Panchayat; Acted in Tele Films; Associated with literacy movement, co-operative
movement, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishath; Won lures in Tele-Quiz Programme,
“Aswamedham”.
Address: Panthalangal, Vengoor.P.O., Ernakulam, Pin - 683546.
216
Member, CPI State Council; Central Committee, Ceylon Communist Party (1943–52),
All India Karshaka Thozhilali Union; Vice President and Assistant Secretary, Cylon
Trade Union Federation; President, Malyalee Mahajana Sabha; Joined INC in 1935 and
later worked in Cylon; Took membership in Lankasamaj party in 1937 and later the
United Socialist Party and the Communist Party; Returning to Kerala in 1952; Became
member CPI State Council and Secretary, AITUC;
Editor of Navasakthi and Chenkathir.
Expired on 12-10-1993; Obituary made on 03-03-1994.
217
Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Finance from 22-02-1960 to 26-09-1962; Chief Minister, II
KLA from 26-9-1962 to 10-9-1964; Chairman, Committee on Privileges (1960–64), Parliamentary
Party Leader, Congress Party; President, KPCC (1959); Member, INCWorking Committee, Pay
Commission (1955), Constituent Assembly, Franchise & Delimitation Committee and Reforms
Committee constituted after introduction of Responsible Government; General Secretary, President,
SNDP and SN Trust; Participated in Freedom movement and undergone imprisonment several times.
Editor of Dinamony, Malayalam Daily.
Expired on 7-11-1972; Obituary made on 13-11-1972.
E. SANKARAN ESLC; Son of Shri Kotha Edaparambil and
Smt. Neeli; born on 05 May 1936; Wife : Kunhammu C;
1 Son, 2 Daughters.
Member, CPI (M) Area Committee, Kerala NGO union State Council.
Address : Edaparambil House, Thrithala, Palakkad District. Pin 679534.
E. M. S (E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad) Intermediate;
Gave up studies while studying for BA; Son of Shri
Parameswaran Namboodiripad and Smt. Vishtudatta
Antharjanam; born on 14 June 1909; Wife: Arya Antharjanam;
2 Sons, 2 Daughters.
Member, Madras Legislative Assembly (1939),
1st KLA [Nileshwar-CPI], 2nd KLA [Pattambi-CPI],
3rd KLA [Pattambi-CPI (M)],
4th KLA [Pattambi-CPI (M)], 5th KLA [Alathur-CPI (M)].
Chief Minister from 05-4-1957 to 31-7-1959, from 06-3-1967 to 01-11-1969; Opposition
Leader from 1960 to 1964, 3rd KLA from 1969 to 1970, 4th KLA from 1970 to 1977,
5th KLA from 1977 to 1978; Chairman, Committee on Privileges (1957–59) and
(1967–69); Entered politics through Congress; State Congress Secretary in 1934 and during 1938,
1939; Communist Leader since 1939; General Secretary, Polit Bureau from 1950; General
Secretary, CPI (1962-63) and Later CPI (M); Authored several Books, “The Mahatma and isms”,
“ Kerala Yesterday today and tommorrow” to name only a few.
Expired on 19-03-1998; Obituary made on 23-03-1998.
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Minister for Health & Tourism from 26.5.2001 to 10.2.2004, Minister for Tourism from
11.2.2004 to 29.8.2004; Member, Lok Sabha (1998-99), Central Manufacturing
Technology Institute Director Board, CADA, Oushadhi, Plantation Corporation; General
Secretary, D.C.C Kozhikode (1980-1991); President, D.C.C.(1), Kozhikode, Kozhikode
District Youth Congress Committee (1978); First Student Syndicate Member Calicut
University (1975–76).
Address : Puthiyottil House, Kadiyangad. P.O., Perambra (via), Kozhikode.
Minister for Transport from 02-04-1987 to 17-06-1991; General Secretary, KPCC (S);
Director, Kerala State Co-operative Marketing Federation, KSFE; President, KSU, Youth
Congress and Congress Thiruvananthapuram District; Founder President, Kerala Vikas
Party.
Address : Sailaja Mandiram, Nedumangad. Pin 695 541.
Speaker, 1st KLA from 27-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; Chairman, Kerala State Service Rules
Revision Committee (1972); Entered politics through All Travancore Youth League and
the Travancore State Congress in 1938; Joined Communist Party in 1947; Imprisoned
several times; Actively involved in the work of the forum for Protection of Citizens rights
and forum for social justice.
Expired on 02-11-1989; Obituary made on 22-01-1990.
State Committee Member, Janatha Party; Entered politics through Students Congress;
Joined Socialist Party in 1950; State Committee Member, Socialist Party; Imprisoned for
over two years; Secretary, Kozhikode District Committee and President, Hind Mazdoor
Sabha State Unit.
Expired on 23-11-2003.
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Vice President and Secretary, Kerala Congress; Member, Bharat Sevak Samaj from its inception in
Kerala, State Social Welfare Board, KSRTC Advisory Board; Convenor, Women’s Wing, Pradesh
Congress; Vice President, Vigil India, Kerala.
Obituary made on 20-07-1999.
T. SARATCHANDRA PRASAD Graduate; born on 05
February 1958.
Senate Member, Kerala University; State President, K.S.U.( NSUI); Executive Member,
K.P.C.C.; General Secretary, KPCC; District President, KSU Trivandrum; State General Secretary,
KSU, IYC; Chairman, Kerala University Union, FANS (Fight Alcohol, Narcotics, and Smoking),
Desheeya Bala Tharangam; Working Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Peace Foundation; President, G-THREE
(Global Tourism Hospitality Recreation and Entertainment Experts Co-operative Society); Member,
IYCI National Council, AICC.
Address : Flat No.A, Leela Shelters, Punnan Road, Statue, Thiruvananthapuram. Pin. 695 039.
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Member, Coffee Board, Kerala State Sports Council, Calicut University Senate,
Governing body of Kerala State Saksharatha Samithi, Kerala State Housing Board, State
Transport Authority, Governing body of Jawaharlal Memorial Public Library and
Research Centre, Kannur; General Secretary, K.P.C.C.(S); Vice President & President,
Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress Committee; General Secretary, K.S.U. Central
Committee; Vice President, Nationalist Congress Party, Kerala State Committee.
Address : Varsha, Chovva P.O., Kannur.
Member, CPI District and State Council, AITUC State Working Committee; District Vice
President, AITUC; Secretary, Kerala State Chethu Thozhilali Federation.
Address : Urkolil House, Naithakudy P.O., Mala, Thrissur. Pin-680 732.
Whip, Congress Legislature Party; Secretary, N.S.U. (I) National Committee; Chairman,
Mahatma Gandhi University Union (1986-87); University Union Councilor in MG and
Kerala Universities.
Address : Vadassery, Nettoor P.O., Ernakulam District. Pin 682 304.
President, SFI Kannur District Committee (1978-80), Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali
Union (KSKTU) Kasargod District Committee (since 1998), DYFI Kasargod District
Committee (1991-94); Vice President, SFI State Committee (1980-84), SFI Central
Executive Committee (1981-86), DYFI State Committee and Central Executive
Committee (1991-97); Joint Secretary, DYFI Kasargod District Committee (1984);
Secretary, DYFI Kasargod District Committee (1985-91); Member, CPM Kasargod
District Committee (1984), CPM District Secretariat (since 1991).
Managing Editor 'Student' Monthly journal of SFI (1980-84) and Editor, “Yuvadhara”.
Address : Kottayil House, Pattena, Puthariyadukkam P.O., Kasaragod District.
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Member, Calicut University Senate, C.P.I State Executive Committee; President, AISF,
Koshikode District Committee and State Committee; Secretary and President, AIYF
Kerala State Committee; Vice President, AIYF National Council, All India Kisan Sabha
State Committee; Won award for the Best Young Parliamentarian in the name of Late
Shri. K. Sankaranayanan Thampi.
Address : Sree Achutham, Mokeri P.O., Kakkattil (via), Kozhikode, Pin 673 516.
Chairman, House Committee (1970-75) and (1975-76); Member, Muslim League State
Committee, State Food Advisory Committee, State Tapioca Marketing Expansion Board;
Vice President, Kerala Muslim League.
Address : Noor Mahal, Koyilandy P.O., Kozhikode.
Member, Lok Sabha (1997), (2003-04) and since 2004; Correspondent, Indian Express
during 1973-80; Taught law in journalism institutes; Presenter of popular TV Programme
“Madhyama Vicharam’.
Address: St. Francis Xaviers Church Road, Cochin - Pin 682 018.
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Member, Trichur D.C., CPI (M); Later joined CPI; District Secretary and Acting State
Secretary, Communist Party; Member, Malabar District Board; Director, Rural Bank,
Valappad and Nattika Firka Co-operative Rural Bank; Correspondent, Sree Rama
Polytechnic.
Expired in 1986; Obituary made on 17-03-1986.
Founder Member, Kairali Sevaka Co-operative Society Ltd., Edava, Member, Central
Council Kerala Gandhasala Sanghom, Kerala State Haj Committee; Vice President,
Trivandrum District Co-operative Bank; Director, Trivandrum District Land Mortgage
Bank.
Expired on 29-08-1982; Obituary made on 25-03-1983.
Member, CPI State Council; Active worker of CPI from 1948; Arrested and imprisoned
several times; Head of the Volunteer wing of the CPI; Associated with Co-operative
Movement.
Address : Kaniyamparambil, Maruthurkulangara South, Alumkadavu P.O.,
Karunagappally.
Vice-president, R.Y.F (B) State Committee; Member R.S.P. (B) State Committee;
Mechanical Engineer and Businessman before entering politics; Mechanical Engineer and
Businessman before entering politics in 1998.
Address : Vayalil Bunglow, Neendakara P.O., Kollam.
Member, DYFI State Committee; State Committee Member and District Secretary, All
India Democratic Women's Association; High School Teacher; Joined CPI (M) in 1976;
Actively involved in Co-operative Movement.
Address : Arathi, Pazhassi, Uruvachal P.O., (via) Mattannur, Kannur.
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Minister for Electricity and Rural Development from 02-04-1987 to 17-06-1991, Minister
for Finance from 20-05-1996 to 13-05-2001; Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts
(1993-96); Member, CPI (M) State Secretariat, Kerala State Education Advisory Board,
Calicut University Syndicate, Faculty of Education; Served as Headmaster, KTM High
School, Manarcaud; General Secretary, KPTU; Malabar Regional President, Kerala
Private Teachers Federation.
Address : The Nest, College Road, Palakkad-1.
Actively participated in freedom movement; Left CPI and joined INC in 1960; Member,
Kattakkada Panchayat for 16 years from 1963, KPCC, Coir Corporation Director Board,
Khadi and Village Industries Board, District Land Mortgage Bank, Editorial Board
‘Swaraj Magazine’; Chairman, SC & ST Welfare Corporation (1982-85); Vice President,
Trivandrum DCC.
Address : Plot No.94, Thonnakkal Colony, Kudavoor P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.
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Minister for Labour from 28-12-1981 to 17-03-1982, Minister for Labour (also Excise
from 1986) from 24-05-1982 to 25-03-1987, Minister for Forest and Rural
Development from 20-04-1995 to 09-05-1996, Minister for Electricity from 26.5.2001 to
11.2.2004, Minister for Health And Family Welfare from 11.2.2004 to 29-08-2004;
President, Progressive Students Union; Secretary, KPUTUC (Kerala Provisional United
Trade Union Congress) (1977), Participated in ILO conference at Geneva representing
Central Government in 1985.
Address : Mini Sadan, Anandavalleeswaram, Kollam. Pin 691012.
Senate Member, Kerala University; First Woman General Secretary of State Youth
Congress Committee; Joint Secretary, K.P.C.C.; General Secretary, Democratic Indira
Congress (K); First female President of All Kerala Balajana Sakhyam.
Address : House No.13, Kadakampally Housing Colony, Thuruvikkal.P.O.,
Thiruvananthapuram.
Active member of Students Congress and later State Congress; Resigned in 1948 and
joined ISP; Member, S.S.P. State Executive; Being a Social Reformer, Set an example by
marrying from outside the caste; Associated with Co-operative movement, Library
movement; Participated in the Quit India Movement.
Address : Sreenilayam, Kulappada P.O., Aryanadu (via), Thiruvananthapuram.
Pin 695 542.
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State Committee Member K.S.Y.F.; State Vice President D.Y.F.I ; Chairperson, Standing
Committee, Kannur District Council; President, Kannur District Panchayat (1995-97);
State Secretary, All India Democratic Women's Association; Member, C.P.I. (M) Central
Committee and State Secretariat.
Chief Editor "Sthree Sabdam"
Address : Edathil, Athiyadam, Pazhayangadi. P.O., Kannur. Pin 670303.
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Whip, Congress (I) Parliamentary Party; Treasurer, Congress (I) Parliamentary Party;
Member, KPCC Executive; General Secretary, Alleppey DCC; State General Secretary,
National Agricultural Labourers Federation; Member, INTUC State Executive, Minimum
Wages Committee for Agricultural Labourers; Entered politics through Students
Federation; Joined INC in 1964.
Expired on 25-04-1995; Obituary made on 26-06-1995.
Minister for Excise from 24-05-1982 to 30-05-1986; President, SNDP Yogam for over
six years; Chairman, SRP for seven years.
Expired on 19-10-1988; Obituary made on 21-12-1988.
Executive Member, C.P.I. Kollam District; Deputy Leader, CPI Parliamentary Party;
President, Kerala Karshaka Sanghom, Kollam District Committee; Kerala State Forest
Development Corporation Staff Association, Indo-Soviet Project Workers Union.
Expired on 07-05-1996; Obituary made on 15-07-1996.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1971-77), (1977-79) and (1980-84); Union Cabinet Minister for
Communications (1980); Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha from 12-4-1978 to
10-7-1979; Member, K.P.C.C., A.I.C.C., State Planning Advisory Board; General
Secretary, K.P.C.C; Leading Lawyer and eminent leader of INTUC; Editor : Hyderbad
Bulletin, Financial Times, (Bombay) and Pouraprabha Malayalam daily.
Expired on 16-01-1984; Obituary made on 05-03-1984.
State Secretary, Kerala Students Congress (M); President, Kerala Students Congress
(M); State General Secretary, Youth Front (M).
Publications : Educational Reformation – A Guideline.
Address : Veliyath House, Kuruppanthara P.O., Kottayam.
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Member, K.P.C.C Executive, Kerala University Senate, Interstate Board for Anglo Indian
Education; Founder and Patron, All Kerala Anglo Indian Youth Movement; Established
12 Anglo Indian Primary Schools; General Secretary, Union of Anglo Indian Association.
Contributed a Chapter on Anglo Indians in 'History of Kerala'.
Expired on 28-10-1994; Obituary made on 30-03-1995.
Member, Kerala University Syndicate, CPI (M) State Committee, CITU State Executive
Committee, CPI (M) Quilon and Alapuzha District Committee, CPI (M) District
Secretariat; District Secretary, KSYF, Quilon and Alappuzha Districts, CPI (M)
Allappuzha Executive Committee, Kerala Agricultural University, RTA Board,
Alappuzha; First President, Alappuzha District Council; President, CITU Alappuzha
District Committee; State Vice President, KSYF; Joint Secretary, KSF State Committee;
Founder Member, First State President and General Secretary, SFI; All India Vice
President SFI; Published Poems in English and Malayalam.
Address : Navaneetham, Sanathanapuram P.O., Alappuzha-3.
Minister for Forest & Sports from 26-05-2001 to 29-08-2004; General Secretary, KSU
(O); State President, National Students Organisation, Youth Congress (O), Yuva Janatha;
Member, K.P.C.C. Executive (1984-1991); President, D.C.C.(I), Kannur (1991-01);
Chairman, U.D.F. District Committee (1991-01).
Address : Lal Vihar, Kizhunna, Kannur-7.
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Speaker from 08-03-1985 to 27-03-1987; Minister for Health from 20-04-1995 to 09-05-
1996; Chairman, Committee on Estimates (1982-84), Committee on Private Members’
Bills and Resolutions’ (1984-85); Member, Lok Sabha (1977-79), (1996-97), (1998-99)
& (1999-04); President, KSU & Kerala Pradesh Youth Congress; General Secretary,
KPCC, Indian Youth Congress; Vice President, KPCC.
Address : GRA 777, Goureesapattam, Pattam Palace P.O., Thiruvananthapuram-4.
Director and Chairman Kerala State Coir Corporation; President, Alappuzha District
Youth Congress (1970-80); General Secretary, Youth Congress State Committee,
D.C.C.(I) (1986); Member, K.P.C.C.(1973 onwards), KPCC (I) Executive, Coir Board
Executive Committee, SN Trust; Vice-President, Alappuzha D.C.C.(I) (1991
onwards); Treasurer, Congress (I) Legislture Party.
Address : Ambalapuzha House, District Court Ward, Alappuzha.
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Entered politics through INC; Joined Communist Party in 1939; Participated in freedom
movement; Imprisoned for 4 1/2 years.
Expired on 14-02-1970; Obituary made on 02-03-1970.
Entered politics through State Congress; Participated in the freedom movement; Joined
Communist Party in 1948; Actively involved in social work.
Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
Member, KPCC and AICC; Treasurer, DCC Palakkad, Co-operative Cell of AICC, All
India Federation of Educational Associations; General Secretary, Kerala Aided Primary
Teachers Union; State Convenor, Teachers Cell; Director, Palakkad Central Co-operative
Bank.
Publications : Unnathi Short Stories (1957) ; Rajan Short Stories (1959)
Expired on 13-07-1984; Obituary made on 16-07-1984.
Minister for Local Administration from 28-12-1981 to 17-03-1982 and from 24-05-
1982 to 25-03-1987; Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation (1979-81),
Committee on Assurances (1977-79), P.S.P. State Committee; Entered politics through
Students Congress; Participated in Quit India Movement; Later joined Socialist Party and
worked in the trade union field at Bombay; Actively involved in the tribal welfare work;
Palakkad Municipal Chairman for three years and has been a member for a long time.
Address : Minerva Building, Kalpathy, Palakkad –3.
Member, CPI (M) Idukki District Committee, CPI (M) Idukki District Secretariat, M.G.
University Senate; Chairman, SC/ST Federation, Thiruvananthapuram; District
Committee Member and Vice President, CITU Idukki and State General Council
Member.
Address : Mattupatty Road, Munnar P.O.
243
Deputy Speaker since 04-07-2001; Minister for Transport, Rural Development and
Agriculture from 01-09-1983 to 25-03-1987; Performed the duties of the Office of the
Speaker from 4-9-2004 to 16-9-2004; Gram Sevak till 1960; Member of Communist
Party before joining INC in 1964; Chairman, KELPAM; Vice President, District
Congress Committee; Executive Member, K.P.C.C (1987-90).
Address : Saroja Bhavan, Keezhammakom, Chenkal P.O., Thiruvananthapuram.
Pin 695 132.
Minister for Health & Tourism from 28-12-1981 to 17-03-1982; Leader, NDP
Parliamentary Party; Member, Kerala Public Service Commission, Kerala University
Senate, Coir Marketing Federation Director Board; Manager, Vavod L.P School and
High School; Principal, Victory College, Thampanoor; Treasurer, N.D.P.
Publication : A thesis " Sister Carrie" a landmark in naturalistic tradition.
Address : "Sree", TC. 13/445, Thampuran Mukku, Kunnukuzhi, Trivandrum – 35.
Member, KPCC; Vice President & Treasurer, D.C.C, Quilon; Entered politics through
Students Movement; Upon his demise Smt Rachel Sunny Panavelil was elected in the
bye-election.
Expired on 21-03-1985; Obituary made on 25-03-1985.
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Member, CPI Kerala State Council, Kerala University Senate; President, A.I.Y.F. Kerala
State Committee; Vice President, AIYF National Council; President, Rehabilitation
Plantation Workers Union.
Address : Panayil Veedu, Yeroor P.O., Punalur.
General Secretary, Kerala Congress (1998-2001); Vice Chairman, Kerala Congress since
2001; President, Kerala Trade Union Congress (KTUC) from 2001 onwards, Kerala
Vellala Mahasabha (KVMS) from 1992 onwards.
Address : Puthenveedu, Karukone P.O., Anchal, Punalur, Kollam.
245
Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe (1996);
Member, State Planning Advisory Committee, Housing Board, Agricultural University
Executive Committee, Cochin University Senate, Calicut University Senate, CPI State
Committee; Secretary, District Congress Committee, Palghat; Vice President, District
Congress Committee, Palghat.
Address : Mangala Parambil, Paruthoor P.O., (Via) Pallippuram, Pattambi.
Member, Muslim League State Committee; President, Mankada Panchayath; Kerala State
Swathanthra Thozhilali Union; State Swathanthra Karhsaka Sanghom; Joint Secretary,
District Muslim League Committee.
Expired on 11-04-1984; Obituary made on 21-06-1984.
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Board Member, Neyyattinkara Co-operative Bank; General Secretary, General Lorry and
Taxi Workers Union; Janata Workers Union; President, Marma Thirummu Kalaripayattu
Association.
Address : Sugatha Bhavan, Alummoodu, Neyyattinkara.
Member, CPI (M) Quilon District Committee; Active worker of Karshaka Thozhilali
Union; Joined CPI in 1960; Later stood with the CPI (M).
Address : Puthuveli Veedu, West Kallada.P.O., Quilon.
Deputy Leader, NDP Legislature Party; Member, KPCC (1960); Kerala Congress State
Working Committee; State Treasurer, N.D.P; Secretary, District Committee, NDP, NSS
Director Board; Member, Kollam Land Mortgage Bank, State and District Family
Planning Committees.
Expired on 15-07-2001; Obituary made on 23-07-2001.
248
Chairman, Committee on Public Accounts since 2004; State Planning Board Member
(1996-2001); Professor and Honorary fellow, Centre for Development Studies; President,
SFI State Committee; Secretary CPI (M) Legislature Party; Member, CPI (M) State
Committee and State Secretariat.
Published a number of articles and books on Economics, Planning and Politics like
Kerala, Land and Man, Peoples Planning, Theory and Practice, Economic Crisis in the
Capitalist World, Janakeeyasuthranathinte Rashtreeyam.
Address : A.K.G. Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.
250
Member, KPCC, AICC; Active Congress worker since 1938; Imprisoned in 1939 and
1946; Took active part in the organisation of Kuttananad Karshaka Sanghom and Motor
Boar Workers; President, All Kerala Transport Ministerial Staff Union; Active Congress
Worker since 1938; Imprisoned in 1939 and 1946; Took active part in the organisation of
Kuttanad Karshaka Sanghom and Motor Boat Workers; President, All Kerala Transport
Ministerial Staff Union.
Expired on 11-7-1981; Obituary made on 14-07-1981.
Member, Kerala Congress State Executive, Idukki District Co-operative Bank Director
Board, Idukki district Co-operative Bank Executive Board; District President and State
Treasurer, Kerala Congress (M); Chairman, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation;
President, Kattappana Panchayat, Kattappana Service Co-operative Bank, Kerala Senior
Citizen's Forum, Idukki District; Head Master, Christ Raj High School, Valiyathovala
and Headmaster St.George's High School, Kattappana.
Address : Mukkathukunnel , Kattappana South P.O., Idukki , Pin 685515.
President , Koottickal Panchayat; Member, CPI (M) Kottayam District Committee; CITU
District Committee; Imprisoned in 1964, 1968 and 1969 in connection with Farmer’s
agitation and Transport Workers agitation; Association with co-operative movement.
Address : Kollamparambil, Koottickal P.O., Kottayam.
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Minister for Fisheries & Tourism from 26-05-2001 to 11-2-2004 and Minister for Fisheries and Excise
from 11-2-2004 to 29-08-2004; Member, Lok Sabha (1984-96); Director Board Member, Cochin
International Airport, Marine Product Export Development Authority; Consultative Committee
Member, Civil Aviation and Tourism, Defence and Official Language in Lok Sabha, General Secretary,
D.C.C, Ernakulam (1978-87); Treasurer, K.P.C.C (1992-97); Organising Secretary INTUC (Kerala)
(1978-84); General Secretary 1NTUC (1984-93); Member, AICC ; President, DCC Ernakulam (1987-
01); Member of Courts, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Pondicherry University.
Publication : "Ente Kumbalanghi" “Kumbalangikku Sesham”.
Address : Kurupassery House, 20/191, Kochupally Road, Thoppumpady, Cochin-5.
252
Secretary, Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; President, Young Men’s Club,
Kochi; District Govenor, Y’s Men International; Secretary, Western Cochin Development
Council; Director, Cochin YMCA.
Address : 9/799(A), Mullasseril, Kembiri Road, Kochi-2.
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Secretary, Ernakulam Bar Association; Vice-President and Secretary General, Janata Dal;
While a Student at Belgaum took active part in Goan National Struggle; President,
Malanadu Karshaka Union; Actively involved in peasants agitation.
Practised in Madras High Court, Kerala High Court and Supreme Court.
Obituary made on 21-12-2000.
President, Kuttapuzha Panchayat, Land Mortgage Bank, Thiruvalla, Lions Club; Vice
President, YMCA, Thiruvalla.
Obituary made on 03-03-1994.
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President, Konni Panchayat, Kerala Pradesh Karshaka Congress; Member, D.C.C. &
K.P.C.C.; Chairman, Rubber Board; Entered politics through Quit India Movement in
1942.
Address : Vakayar Estate, Vakayar.P.O., Konni., Pin 689 698.
Member, K.P.C.C Executive; Kerala Univeristy Senate, Idukki District Council, State
Library Council since 1990, Youth Welfare Board; Chairman " Samskruthi"; State
President, KSU (1982-84); State Secretary, Youth Congress; Participated in Common
Wealth Parliamentary Conference in Delhi.
Editor 'Kalasala', Chief Editor " Manava Samskruthi Magazine"; Editor “Chepp'
Magazine” ; Published " ADB-yum Prathyaya Sastra Sadhyangalum"
Address : Puthiyaparambil, Rajamudi P.O., Upputhode, Idukki.
Senate Member, Cochin University; State General Secretary, KC (M); General Secretary,
KSC; President, Kerala Youth Front; Member, Advocate Welfare Trust Committee,
Legal Aid and Advisory Board; President, Kerala Film Field Workers Union.
Address : Unniyadath House, Thekkenada.P.O., Vaikom, Kottayam.
Minister for Law and Revenue from 02-03-1964 to 10-09-1964; Chairman, Public
Accounts Committee (1958-59), Committee on Subordinate Legislation (1962-63); Chief
Whip, Congress Parliamentary Party (1960); Executive Committee Member, K.P.C.C.;
Member, Palai Municipal Council; Secretary, Joint Parliamentary Party of Congress and
PSP in 2nd KLA; Chairman, District Advisory Committee for Khadi and Village
Industries.
Expired on 11-04-1984; Obituary made on 21-06-1984.
Secretariat Member, R.S.P; Secretary, UTUC Kolam District; Director, Kollam District
Co-operative Bank; Member, Kollam Municipal Council, Minimum Wages Committee
for Minor Engineering Industry and Bricks Industry, ESI Regional Board.
Address : Kannimel, Mundakkal, Kollam.
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Director Board Member, SN Trust; Member, SNDP Youth Movement, State Committee;
Actively associated with educational and healthcare institutions.
Address : Challiyil House, Kodungallur.P.O. Pin 680664.
President, Kasaragod Taluk Congress Committee, D.C.C. South Canara; Entered politics
in 1921; Member, South Canara District Board; Founder, Kasargod Weaver’s
Co-operative Society.
Obituary made on 21-08-1968.
Deputy Speaker from 31-10-1970 to 22-03-1977 (Performed the duties of the office of
Speaker from May 9, 1975 to February 16, 1976); Minister for Local Administration
from 25-01-1980 to 20-10-1981; Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings
(1970-71), (1973-74) and (1976-77), Committee on Subordinate Legislation (1971-72),
(1972-73) and (1974-75); Secretary, RSP State Committee; Member, State Secretariat
and Central Committee of R.S.P., KSP State Executive; Entered politics through
Travancore State Congress; General Secretary, Students Congress; Undergone
Imprisonment for participation in the agitations against for responsible government;
Joined KSP in 1948; Joined RSP in 1950; President, UTUC.
Expired on 17-02-1999; Obituary made on 26-02-1999.
Secretary, CPI (M) Pathanamthitta District Committee Member, CPI (M) Pathanamthitta
District Secretariat Committee, CPI (M) State Committee; District President, Cashew
Workers Union; Leader, Head Load Workers Union; Actively participated in “Chelur
Kayal Samaram’ and later had undergone imprisonment for 86 days.
Address : Namboorithu, Choorakode.P.O., Adoor, Pathanamthitta.
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Member, Munnar Panchayat, State Harijan Welfare Advisory Board, Plantation Labour
Committee; President, PWD NMR Workers Union, Head Load Workers Union; Forest
and Timber Workers Union.
Expired on 13-02-1998; Obituary made on 23-04-1998.
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Participated in Freedom Movement; Congress worker from 1952 to 1965; DCC and
KPCC Member; Associated with Kerala Karshaka Sanghom.
Address : Pynadeth House, Neerikodukara, Alangad, Ernakulam (Dist.).
Member, Secretariat of the KTP; General Secretary, KTP (1968-70); Joined INC in 1944;
Took part in Teachers Union; Member, Executive Committee, KAPT Union;
Instrumental in forming KTP in 1962.
Expired on 11-06-1986; Obituary made on 24-06-1986
Left Government Service in 1953 and joined Communist Party; Participant in the Kissan
Jatha to Madras in 1955 to get Malabar Tenancy Amendment Act passed; Among the
batch of Satyagrahees who went to Goa in 1955.
Address : Advocate, Palghat.
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Chief Minister from 29 October 1978 to 07 October 1979, Minister for Industries and
Electricity from 11-04-1977 to 25-04-1977, and from 27-04-1977 to 27-10-1978;
Chairman, Committee of Privileges (1978-79), Committee on Public Undertakings (1980-
82); Leader of the House, V KLA till 26-2-1978; Member, Lok Sabha (1957-62), (1962-
67), (1967-70) & (2004-05), CPI Central Secretariat; Secretary, C.P.I. Kerala State
Committee (14 years); Secretary, CPI Parliamentary Party and Member, Panel of
Chairman, Lok Sabha ((1967-70); CPI Parliamentary Party Leader (2004-05); Founder
President, All India Youth Federation; Vice President, World Federation of Democratic
Youth; President, KPAC, Vayalar Memorial Trust.
Editor, Janayugom, Navayugom.
Expired on 12-7-2005 while serving as Member of Parliament and obituary made on
15-7-2005.
N.VASUDEVAN PILLAI Graduate; B.Ed; Headmaster; Son of
Shri Neelakanta Kurup; born in February 1928; Wife:
Thankamma.P; 2 Sons 1 Daughter.
Minister for Forest from 02-04-1987 to 07-04-1987; Chairman, House Committee (1989-
91); Member, Lok Sabha (1996-97) and since 2004; National Treasurer, SSP; Secretary,
Socialist Party, Kerala and its National Secretary; General Secretary (Janatha Party);
Chairman and Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.;
Director, Press Institute of India and PTI.; Chairman, Regional Committee, IENS.
Publications : Ramante Dukham, Gattum Kanacharadukalum.
Address : Ananda Mandiram, Puliyaramala, Kalpetta North Post, Wayanad. Pin 673122.
Minister for Tourism, Devaswom since 05-09-2004; Member, KPCC Executive, Kerala
University Senate, District Secretary, State Vice President, State Treasurer and State
President KSU; University Union Councillor; State President, Youth Congress
(1993-2000).
Address : Kandonthar, Mattumangalam P.0., M.M. Bazar, Pin 670 306.
Speaker from 30-05-1996 to 04-06-2001; The First Speaker to Complete the full term;
Chairman, Committee on Petitions (1989-91); Member, Senate and Syndicate, Kerala
University, State Committee C.P.I.(M).; General Secretary, SFI; State Secretary and
President, DYFI; District Secretary, C.P.I.(M), Thiruvananthapuram District; Attended
CPA Conference at Kuala Lumpur and Australia.
Editor of Monthlies 'Aahwanam' and 'Yuvadhara'.
Address : Vijayasree, T.C.No.15/2670, Pattoor Housing Colony, Thiruvananthapuram.
Joined SRP in 1977; Elected as Secretary, SRP at the first Convention of the Party.
Expired on 29-07-1997; Obituary made on 22-12-1997.
Member, Loksabha (1967-70), Kerala State Chairman, Socialist Party, Janatha Party and
Janata Dal; President, Alleppey Central Coir Marketing Co-operative Society; Vice
President, Coirfed; Joined Socialist Party in 1949; Courted arrest several times in
connection with trade union and public agitations; Member, Coir Board.
Publications : Anusmaranakal Abhiprayangal
Address : Charuvila , Vellar, Kovalam P.O., Thiruvananthapuram. Pin 695527.
Member, DYFI All India Committee, KSYF State Committee, CPI (M) Kozhikode
District Committee; Chairman, Standing Committee for Education, Kozhikode District
Council; Memebr, Youth Student Delegation in the World Youth Festival held in North
Korea; Actively involved in Kisan Movement.
Address : Palottery Veedu, Meloor P.O., Koyilandi, Kozhikode District.
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Member, C.P.I.(M) State Comittee; President, KSF (1967) and its General Secretary
(1969); Vice President, KSYF (1974-77); Active worker of Karshaka Sanghom since
1970; Sustained injuries in Police Lathi charge at Vaikkom in 1969.
Address : Geetha Bhavan, Mariyathuruthu P.O., Kottayam. Pin 686 027.
Minister for Finance from 02-04-1987 to 17-06-1991; Member, Lok Sabha (1967-70),
Rajya Sabha (1974-80), Member, C.P.I. (M) State Committee, Ernakulam Municipal
Council (1956-58), Cochin University Senate, CITU All India Working Committee; At
present not belonging to any political party; Suspended from School during Quit India
Movement; Expelled fro Maharaja College in 1947 for political reasons; Imprisoned for
three years for political reasons including Edapally Police Station Raid Case; Went
underground for more than two years.
Address : Madhava Mangalam, Mudavor P.O., Muvattupuzha. Pin 686669.
Governor, Gujarat; Took active part in Temple Entry agitation in Cochin State and
Campaign for removal of untouchability; Entered Labour Movement in 1949; President
of several Labour Unions; Chairman, Harijan Welfare Evaluation Committee; Held
important positions in the INC and was President, KPCC.
Expired on 17-08-1992; Obituary made on 04-02-1993.
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Minister for Health from 06-03-1967 to 20-10-1969; General Secretary, K.T.P since its
inception in 1962; One of the pioneers of INTUC in Quilon (1952); Secretary, Malanad
Karshaka Union.
Publications : Upavasa Smarana (Malayalam).
Address : ARA-16, Amuruthakulam Thope, Mundakkal East, Pin 691001.
Member, Minimum Wages Committee for Plantation Workers; Secretary, ISP and later
PSP.
Expired on 27-8-2000.
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Member, Lok Sabha (1980-84) & (1996-97); Had been in the USA and UK till 1970;
Government Pleader in High Court during 1974-77; Convenor, National Forum of
Lawyers and Legal Aid; Chairman, Kerala Weight lifting Association.
Expired on 09-02-1997; Obituary made on 13-03-1997.
Member, CPI State Council, AITUC National Council, Minimum Wages Committee,
KSTUC Executive; Joined CPI in 1942; Imprisoned in 1946, 1948 and several times;
Went underground for more than two years; Associated mainly in Beedi workers and the
factory workers unions; Secretary, CPI Palakkad District Committee;
Address : Kalmandapam, Palakkad. Pin 678 001.
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AT THE HELM
OF
LEGISLATURE
GOVERNORS,
CHIEF MINISTERS,
OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE
AND
LEADERS OF OPPOSITION
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1. Smt. A. Nabisath Beevi, Deputy Speaker performed the duties of the office of the
Speaker for the period from April 18, 1961 to June 8, 1961.
2. Shri R. S. Unni, Deputy Speaker performed the duties of the office of the Speaker
for the period from May 9, 1975 to February 16, 1976.
3. Shri K. M. Hamsakunju, Deputy Speaker performed the duties of the office of the
Speaker for the period from December 29, 1984 to March 7, 1985.
4. Shri K. Narayana Kurup, Deputy Speaker performed the duties of the office of the
Speaker for the period from May 4, 1995 to June 26, 1995.
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3. SHRI M. P. MOHAMMED JAFFER KHAN March 20, 1967 - June 26, 1970
8. SHRI KORAMBAYIL AHAMMED HAJI October 20, 1986 - March 25, 1987
10. SHRI NARAYANA KURUP July 19, 1991 - May 14, 1996
Photograph
The former President Shri K. R. Narayanan addressing the Members on September 18,
1997. This was the first ever address by a President before the Assembly.
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TENURES OF ASSEMBLY
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TENURES OF ASSEMBLY
Photograph
Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru being introduced to the Ministers during his visit
to Kerala on April 25, 1958.
Photograph
Pandit Jawaharlal addressing the House after unveiling the portrait of Dr. Rajendra
Prasad in the Old Assembly Hall on April 25, 1958.
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N AME I NDEX
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First KLA
Second KLA
Third KLA
Fourth KLA
Fifth KLA
Sixth KLA
declared elected. Shri. K. Sudhakaran took oath on August 17th 1992. The SC P P
Shri. P.K. Sreenivasan on May 7th 1996, before the declaration of the
P P