Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad,popularly known as EMS,was an Indian communist politician and theorist,who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala in 1957–1959 and then again in 1967–1969. As a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI),he became the first non-Congress Chief Minister in the Indian republic. In 1964,he led a faction of the CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He completed his graduation from St. Thomas College,Thrissur Kerala.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the national parties of India. The party emerged from a split in the Communist Party of India (CPI) on 7 November 1964. As of 2022,CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in three states —the Left Democratic Front in Kerala,Mahagathbandhan in Bihar,and the Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu. CPIM has representation in the legislative assemblies of 9 states.
The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India and one of the eight national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in Cawnpore on 26 December 1925.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is a communist party in India. The party was founded on 19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan,popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG,was an Indian communist politician. He was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. Later he became one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive,popularly known as BTR,was an Indian communist politician and trade union leader.
Prakash Karat is an Indian communist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 2005 to 2015.
Vallathol Narayana Menon was a Malayalam poet and one of the triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry,along with Asan and Ulloor. The honorific Mahākavi was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his MahakavyaChitrayogam. He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement. He also wrote against the caste system,the tyranny of the British and Brahmanas and other social orthodoxies. He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.
Kilimanoor is a panchayat and a town in the Chirayinkeezhu taluk of Trivandrum district in Kerala,India. It is located on MC/SH 1 Road,33 kilometres (21 mi) North-west of the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum),14 km east of Attingal and 20 km (12 mi) east of Varkala.
P. Karunakaran is an Indian communist politician and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Kasargod constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He was elected to Lok Sabha for the first time in 2004 general election. He won the second term in 2009 Lok Sabha election. He got 385,522 votes against 321,095 of the Congress(I) candidate. He was the leader of the Loksabha for CPI(M) in the 16th Loksabha.
Kannoth Muraleedharan is an Indian National Congress (INC) politician from Kerala,the son of eminent congress leader K. Karunakaran. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha thrice from the Kozhikode constituency,subsequently leaving the party in 2005. For a while he had joined NCP of Sharad Pawar. Then he rejoined Congress. He was elected as the Chairman of KPCC Campaign committee in September 2018. He entered 17th Lok Sabha by winning from the Vatakara in 2019 general elections.
Erode Venkatappa Krishnasamy Sampath(c. 5 March 1926 –23 February 1977),usually referred to as E. V. K. Sampath was a prominent politician from Tamil Nadu,India. He was an advocate of the Dravidian Movement of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy and was considered by some as his political heir. He later split from Periyar's Dravidar Kazhagam to form Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) along with C. N. Annadurai. In spite of being one of the founders of DMK he later left and formed his own party,by the name,Tamil National Party. Nevertheless,he later merged his party with the Indian National Congress. He is a former Member of Parliament from the constituency of Namakkal
Sampath is a given name and surname,meaning prosperity or wealth in Hindu/Sanskrit.
Tamil National Party was a short-lived political party formed in 1962 in Tamil Nadu,India. The party finds its roots with the split in Dravidar Kazhagam after which Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was formed. E. V. K. Sampath,a founding member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,left the party following differences with the party leadership. The differences arose due to the DMK's stance on achieving an independent nation called Dravida Nadu. Nevertheless,within years the Tamil National Party was merged with Indian National Congress.
The third legislative assembly election to the Madras state was held on 21 February 1962. The Indian National Congress party,led by K. Kamaraj,won the election. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam made significant in-roads in the election and emerged as the second party for the first time by winning 50 seats.
Attingal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. This constituency came into existence in 2008 following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendation of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002.
Anathalavattom Anandan is an Indian politician,a trade unionist and a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is the President of the Kerala State Committee and national Vice President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and the State Secretariat Member of the CPI(M) Kerala State Committee. Anandan is also the President of Kerala Coir Workers Centre. He was elected thrice to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Attingal constituency,in 1987,1996 and 2006. The Kerala State Government had appointed him as the Vice Chairman of Apex Body for Coir in August 2016.
Sobha Surendran is an Indian politician from the state of Kerala,allied to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sobha is the first woman politician from Kerala BJP to hold a position at the national level. She has acted as the state president of BJP Mahila Morcha. She also serves on the board of directors of the Chennai Petroleum Corporation.
A.K.G. is a 2007 Malayalam-language historical drama film,directed by Shaji N Karun,starring P. Sreekumar and Krishna Kumar in the lead roles. It is based on the political and personal life of communist leader A.K. Gopalan. The film was edited by Mahesh Narayanan,who had replaced B. Ajithkumar due to scheduling issues.
N. Anirudhan is an Indian politician and leader of Communist Party of India. He represented the Chathannoor constituency in the 10th and 12th Kerala Legislative Assembly. Also he is the member of CPI National council.
