LIBERATION STRUGGLE AND THE DISMISSAL OF THE FIRST COMMUNIST MINISTRY IN KERALA
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In the first general election held to the Kerala State Legislative Assembly in February-March 1957, the Communists won sixty seats out of 126. With the support of five independents, the Communists formed government under the leadership of E.M.S. Namboodiripad on 5 April 1957. This was for the first time in India the Communists came to power through democratic process. On coming to power the Communists made major land marking reforms on education, land and administration. It irked the vested interests in Kerala and brought them in alliance with the opposition political parties who had been awaiting an opportunity to dismantle the Communist government. The combined alliance of the community organisations and political parties organised liberation struggle against the government to end Communist rule in Kerala as all other options to oust the ministry had been exhausted. The present paper analyses how the liberation struggle led to the fall of the government.
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