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- ↑ E.M.S. Namboodiripad. The Communist Party in Kerala - Six Decades of Struggle and Advance. New Delhi: National Book Centre, 1994. p. 6, 13.
- ↑ "List of Former Members of Rajya Sabha (Term Wise)".
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