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Along with K. Kumar, he became the earliest in Kerala to remove the suffix to his name that implied caste-status. [8] He was called Kerala Gandhi. [6] Kelappan labored incessantly for the equality of all sections of the people. He was a major influence on the Vaikom Satyagraha movement and later led the Guruvayur Satyagraha in 1932.
The chief minister of Kerala is the chief executive of the Indian state of Kerala. De facto executive authority rests with the chief minister.Following elections to the Kerala Legislative Assembly, the state's governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly.
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee is the state unit of the Indian National Congress in Kerala. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections.
During the period Mahatma Gandhi invoked the youth to join the freedom struggle. Mammen was inspired by this, and began working among the people of Thiruvalla and Kottayam . He was the candidate for the newly formed Praja Socialist Party in the 1952 Travancore-Cochin Legislative Assembly election and ended up coming second by 500 votes.
Vaikom Satyagraha introduced (sustained) nonviolent public protest in Kerala. [5] The agitation revitalized the morale of the Congress Party in Kerala. [15] T. K. Madhavan became of the General Secretary of the Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam in 1927. [29] Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore (1936). [33]
The United Democratic Front (UDF) is the Indian National Congress-led alliance of centre to centre-right political parties in the Indian state of Kerala. [5] It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the other being Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front, each of which has been in power alternately since 1980 E. K. Nayanar ministry. [6]
Kerala (English: / ˈ k ɛr ə l ə / ⓘ / KERR-ə-lə; Malayalam: [keːɾɐɭɐm] ⓘ), officially Keralam [16] is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. [17] It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Canara, and Travancore.
K. R. Narayanan's interview with M. K. Gandhi, 10 April 1945; given in full in H. Y. Sharada Prasad: "How an interview with Gandhi was spiked", The Asian Age, n.d. Retrieved 24 February 2006. Speech Archived 30 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine while inaugurating the new complex of the Kerala Legislature; 22 May 1998. Retrieved 24 February 2006.