Communist Party of India, led by State Secretary M.N. Govindan Nair
[1]
Opposition party
Indian National Congress
History
Election(s)
1957 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
Successor
Pattom Thanupillai Ministry
The Council of Ministers (1957–59) of Legislative Assembly, Kerala state (better known as E. M. S. Namboodiripad ministry - first term) was the first Council of Ministers, the executive wing of state government, in the Indian state of Kerala. The ministry was led (Chief Minister) by Communist Party of India leader E. M. S. Namboodiripad from 5 April 1957 to 31 July 1959 and had eleven ministries.[2]
One of the first democratically elected Communist governments in the world after San Marino (1942-1947), Namboodiripad and his cabinet are known for their introduction of the Land Reform Ordinance and the Education Bill. The government was dismissed in 1959 by the Central Government, which invoked the controversial Article 356 of the Indian Constitution, following what later became known as The Liberation Struggle.
The State of Kerala was formed on 1 November 1956 as per the States Reorganisation Act of 1956. The erstwhile Travancore-Cochin and the Malabar district of Madras state were reorganized to form the state of Kerala. After the first ever elections to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1957, the Communist Party of India emerged as the single largest party. E M S Namboodiripad formed the first elected government with the support of 5 independent legislators. The government was not able to complete its full 5 years term. Government was dismissed by the President of India by the use of Article 356 of Indian constitution following the 'Liberation Struggle' (Vimochana Samaram in Malayalam).
The Kerala Council of Ministers, during Namboodiripad's term as Chief Minister of Kerala, consisted of:[2]6
Minister
Ministry/Portfolio
Party
1
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Chief Minister
Communist Party of India
2
C. Achutha Menon
Minister for Finance
3
K. P. Gopalan
Minister for Industries
4
K. R. Gowri Amma
Minister for Revenue and Excise
5
Joseph Mundassery
Minister for Education and Cooperation
6
T. V. Thomas
Minister for Labour, Employment and Transport
7
P. K. Chathan Master
Minister for Local Self Government
8
T. A. Majeed
Minister for Public Works
9
K. C. George
Minister for Food and Forest
10
V. R. Krishna Iyer
Minister for Irrigation, Prisons, Law and Electricity[3]
Independent
11
A. R. Menon
Minister for Health
Independent
^http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/Ministers Archived 15 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine Book Final.pdf
^ ab"Council of Ministers since 1957 - First Kerala Legislative Assembly". Government of Kerala. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013.
^Philip, Shaju (5 December 2014). "Former Supreme Court judge V R Krishna Iyer dead". The Indian Express. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
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