The Indian National Congress (INC),colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress,is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885,it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century,and especially after 1920,under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi,the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom,and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
Cheriyan Kandi Muhammad Koya was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Chief Minister of Kerala from October to December 1979. He is more often noted for being the Minister of Education of Kerala from 1967 to 1973 and again from 1977 to 1979. After his Chief Ministership,Koya went on to become the 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala from 1981 until his death in 1983. He is the first Indian Union Muslim League member to lead a state in independent India.
The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former leader of the opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Vijayakant (Captain) at Madurai on 14 September 2005. The DMDK is led by its founder as president and general secretary of the party. The headquarters of the party is located at Jawaharlal Nehru Salai,Koyambedu,Chennai.
Pattambi is a town,taluk,and municipality in the Palakkad District of the state of Kerala,India. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Pattambi Taluk. Pattambi is located along the banks of Bharathappuzha river. A Mini Civil Station also functions here to provide government-related services.
The All India Students' Federation (AISF) is the oldest student organisation in India,founded in 1936.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Prabhat Patnaik is an Indian Marxist economist and political commentator. He taught at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi,from 1974 until his retirement in 2010. He was the vice-chairman of Kerala State Planning Board from June 2006 to May 2011.
Kuruppasserry Varkey Thomas,is an Indian politician from Kumbalangi in Ernakulam district,Kerala,India. He represented Ernakulam Constituency from 2009 to 2019. He was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution,2nd UPA Government;a member of the Indian Parliament;and was a member of All India Congress Committee from 1984 to 2022. He is now the Special Representative of Government of Kerala at New Delhi with Cabinet rank.
M.P. Abdussamad Samadani is an Indian politician,orator,writer and scholar. He knows Malayalam,English,Urdu,Hindi,Arabic,Persian and Sanskrit languages. Samadani was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
Kalastavadi Puttaswamy was an Indian lawyer,and a senior Indian National Congress politician,who remained a member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly (1952–1977),three times from Mysore,subsequently twice from Chamundeshwari constituency and once from Chamaraja consistency,who also served as Minister of various ministries of Government of Karnataka,including Labour,Public Administration and Health &Housing. He has also remained member of the Constituent Assembly in 1948.
A. M. Ariff is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament representing Alappuzha constituency from 2019. A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),he represented Aroor constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2019. Ariff made his first win from Aroor in 2006 defeating veteran political leader K. R. Gowri Amma. A. M. Ariff has been elected 3 times from Aroor to Kerala Legislative in the years 2006,2011 and 2016. Ariff was elected to Loksabha in 2019 from Alappuzha.
Vadassery Damodaran Satheesan is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress,representing Paravur Assembly Constituency in Ernakulam District,serving as Leader of the Opposition (UDF) in the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Shafi Parambil is an Indian politician and a member of the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and represents Palakkad constituency.
M. Noushad is an Indian politician and member of the fourteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly representing Eravipuram constituency in Kollam district of Kerala. He belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a member of its Kollam east area committee. He served as the Vadakkevila Panchayat Vice President,Deputy Mayor of Kollam Municipal Corporation from July 2014 to October 2015. Representing as an CPI(M) candidate from Eravipuram he contested in the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election and defeated A. A. Aziz,the state secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party by a margin of 28,803 votes and became the first CPI(M) MLA from Eravipuram.
K. D. Prasenan is an Indian politician and a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly representing Alathur constituency.
K. Babu is the member of 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He is a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and represents Nemmara constituency.
Dr. Shakeel Ahmad Khan is a member of the 16th assembly of Bihar state in India. He is a National secretary of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Adruti Laxmibai was an Indian freedom movement activist and politician. She received her bachelor's degree from Dayacician College in Calcutta and later enrolled to study medicine at the Christian Medical College in Vellore. She was elected for the Berhampur constituency in 1937 and 1946 and was the deputy speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly,formerly known as Orissa,in 1946. She notably introduced a policy of free education for girls in Odisha.
Pattambi State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections,the current MLA is Muhammed Muhsin of CPI.
Chaudhary Dilip Singh Chaturvedi was an Indian politician and an eminent lawyer from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly as a Bharatiya Janta Party candidate for the Bhind constituency following the 1980 elections. He was a socialist leader.
