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Chief minsters of Kerala
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Kerala's first Chief Minister
E.M.S. Namboodiripad became Kerala's first Chief Minister on 5 April 1957. His was India's first elected communist government.
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A government dismissed in 1959
The first EMS ministry was dismissed on 31 July 1959 under Article 356, after the agitation known as the Vimochana Samaram (Liberation Struggle).
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From Chief Minister to Governor
Pattom A. Thanu Pillai, Kerala's second Chief Minister, later served as Governor of Punjab and then of Andhra Pradesh.
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First Congress Chief Minister
R. Sankar became Kerala's first Congress Chief Minister in 1962. His ministry fell in 1964 after losing a no-confidence motion.
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First to complete a full term
C. Achutha Menon of the CPI led the 1970–77 government. He is remembered as the first Kerala Chief Minister to complete a full term in office.
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The shortest tenure
C.H. Mohammed Koya of the Muslim League was Chief Minister for only about 54 days in 1979. That is the shortest tenure of any Kerala Chief Minister.
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Kerala's youngest Chief Minister
A.K. Antony became Chief Minister in 1977 at just 37. That makes him the youngest person ever to hold the post in Kerala.
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Kerala's oldest Chief Minister
V.S. Achuthanandan was sworn in as Chief Minister in 2006 at the age of 82. He is the oldest person to take charge as Kerala's Chief Minister.
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Chief Minister four times
K. Karunakaran, popularly called 'Leader', became Kerala's Chief Minister four separate times between 1977 and 1995.
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A United Nations award
Oommen Chandy received the UN Public Service Award in 2013 for his Mass Contact Programme (Janasambarka Paripadi). In it, he met people directly to solve their grievances.
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Breaking the five-year cycle
In 2021, Pinarayi Vijayan's LDF government won a second straight term. It became the first Kerala government in decades to be re-elected after completing a full term.
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No woman Chief Minister yet
Kerala has never had a woman Chief Minister. K.R. Gowri Amma, a member of the first 1957 ministry, was once widely expected to become one.
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Five decades, one constituency
Oommen Chandy represented Puthuppally in the Kerala Legislative Assembly without a break from 1970 until his death in 2023. That makes him the longest-serving MLA in Kerala's history.
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A CM who resigned within a month
K. Karunakaran became Chief Minister in March 1977 but resigned in April 1977 after the Kerala High Court's remarks in the Rajan case. The case involved a student who disappeared in police custody during the Emergency.
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A founder of the CPI(M)
V.S. Achuthanandan was one of the 32 leaders who walked out of the CPI National Council in 1964. That walkout led to the founding of the CPI(M), and he became its last surviving founder.
