Word: namboodiripad
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...Delhi, Shriman Narayan, general secretary of Nehru's Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
...peoples' action committees" assiduously poke their noses into everything from state transportation to the government's "fair price" food shops. When reports reached Kerala's capital of Trivandrum that some of the "action committees" were usurping the functions of the law courts, Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad replied blandly: "A government is best that rules the least." The "peoples' committees," he told his followers, were the wave of the future...
...Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...
Like so many proud fathers, India's Communists were busy clucking and exclaiming over their new prize exhibit-the Communist government of the state of Kerala (pop. 13.6 million) in southwest India. While Prime Minister Nehru's central government watched nervously, Chief Minister Sankaran Namboodiripad put on quite a show in his first two weeks in office. Ventilation systems were ordered for the state jails. The pay of village headmen was ostentatiously raised from $6.75 a month to a maximum of almost $11 a month. In a "gesture of mercy," the Communists promised to release 500 "political" prisoners...
...broader issues, so many Red leaders volunteered statements of policy that no man could say what manner of state the Communists would run. Chief Minister Namboodiripad proclaimed his intention of nationalizing all foreign-owned plantations ("a deliberate attempt to frighten off foreign investors and foreign aid," wailed New Delhi) and of establishing industrial "managing councils" composed of workers, union leaders and a few lonely bosses. But Kerala's new Minister of Industries blandly began trying to lure private enterprise into the state on the promise of cheap credit facilities and no strikes. Another Red leader warned that...