Smt. K.R.Gouri Land Revenue K.R.GOURI AMMA Graduate BL; Daughter of Shri.K.A.Raman and Smt.Parvati Amma; born on 14 July 1919; Husband; T.V.Thomas, Ex-Minister.Member, Travancore Cochin Legislative Assembly (1952-53) and (1954-56), 1st KLA [Sherthalai-CPI], 2nd KLA [Sherthalai-CPI], 3rd KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 4th KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 6th KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 7th KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 8th KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 9th KLA [Aroor-CPI(M)], 10th KLA [Aroor-JSS], 11th KLA [Aroor-JSS]. Minister for Revenue from 05 [...]
Shri. V.R.Krishna Iyer Law Graduate, BL; Son of Shri.V.V.Rama Iyer; born on May 1915; Wife: Sarada. Member, Madras Legislative Assembly (1952-56), 1st KLA [Tellicherry-Independent], 2nd KLA [Tellicherry-Independent]. (Contested the Elections in 1960 but lost and later declared elected to the II KLA on 7th September 1961 by the Election tribunal and took oath on 13-11-1961). Minister for Law and Irrigation from 05-04-1957 to 31-07-1959; Judge of the High Court and Supreme Court; Member,Law Co [...]
Dr. A.R.Menon Health MBBS; born on 06 April 1886. Member, Kochi Legislative Assembly (1925-45), Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly (1954-56), 1st KLA [Trichur-Independent], 2nd KLA [Parali-Independent]. 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 been a Medical Practitioner in Engla [...]
Luminaries in Legislature Entry into the first Legislative Assembly as a member was a remarkable achievement for a politician. Only politically pristine and socially almanac personae were voted into the House in the general elections held on February 1957. The first assembly legislature witnessed great political luminaries of Kerala. In the House they thought, fought and debated for the public. The records of the Kerala Legislative Assembly have the photos and profiles of the 127 members of the [...]
SUGGESTIONS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY IN BUILDING UP OF A NEW KERALA The Resolution passed by the Kerala State Conference of the Party held at Thrissur on 22, 23 and 24th of June 1956. It is with gratitude and great expectations that the Communist Party welcome the formation of the new state of Kerala, which, in all probability, will be on linguistic basis. Movements that forced the formation of states on linguistic basis have evolved as an integral part of the great struggle our people had waged t [...]
List of Participating Political Parties Party Status Abbreviation Indian National Congress National Party INC Communist Party Of India CPI Praja Socialist Party PSP Revolutionary Socialist Party State Party RSP Independent IND Constituencies Type Of Constttuency Gen Sc St Total No Of Constituencies 102 12 0 114 Contestant's Details Total Contestants In Fray 406 Average Contestants Per Constituency 4 Minimum Contestants In A Constituency I In 114 Manjeswaram Maximum Contestant In A Constituency I [...]
The coming into power of a Communist government in Kerala on April 5,1957 through electoral victory was looked upon as a socio- political miracle by the whole world. But the fact was that kerala society was evolving in such a way as to accept a government with communist ideology although a formal communist party was started only in 1939. Still the dominant section of the Indian National Congress in Malabar viz, the congress socialist party was motivated more by Marxian social synergism than by G [...]
NK Jayakumar The Kerala Legislative Assembly completes 50 years of its existence on the first day of April, 2007,exactly five months after the State celebrates its 50th birthday. But the legislative history of Kerala begins much earlier, in 1888, with the establishment of Legislative Council in Travancore. The evolutionary process of the legislature and the legal system during a period spanning more than 100 years reveals the decisive influence of socio-economic and political factors. Administra [...]
Dr. J. Prabhash The 1957 EMS Ministry of Kerala - commonly known as the First Communist Ministry - is a milestone in the history of modern Parliamentary Democracy. The importance of this experiment lay not merely in the fact that it was the first instance of a Communist Party assuming power in the world through universal adult franchise, after the famous Sanmarino experiment of Italy. Significant this was, but historic was the initiative it had undertaken in redefining social relations and democ [...]
Dr. P.K. Michael Tharakan It seems, if there is one other legislation which was so intensly debated in Kerala above the Education Bill of 1957, it was the Agrarian Relations bill which was presented by the first elected Communist Government which came to power under the leadership of EMS Namboothiripad. The resistance and the modes of protest adopted by it and the after effects have formed the important components of Kerala history itself. Eventhough our focus of discussion is the Education bill [...]