Word: namboodiripad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kerala's influential Communists egged the mobs on. The government retaliated by jailing 13 Reds, including E. M. S. Namboodiripad, who was Kerala's chief minister during the 27 months in the mid-1950s when the state was under Communist rule. Even in jail the Reds managed to make trouble by going on a hunger strike, which they vowed would not end until the government provided Kerala with larger rations...
...combining to eliminate three-and four-cornered races, the Congress Party, Praja Socialists and Moslem League, usually at one another's throats, concentrated on the Reds instead. Swept out of office were seven out of eleven ministers of the Communist regime. Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, the former chief minister, survived only by switching to a safe constituency...