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Sunday, February 12, 2012

C.K CHANDRAPPAN COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA

C.K CHANDRAPPAN,  COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA

C.K. Chandrappan will continue to head the Communist Party of India (CPI) in the State. The newly constituted 89-member State council of the CPI unanimously elected Mr. Chandrappan as the State secretary of the party on Saturday. Mr. Chandrappan was first elected State secretary of the CPI on November 14, 2010, when the then incumbent Veliyam Bhargavan stepped down due to ill health.
Mr. Chandrappan is the son of C.K. Kumara Panickar, known as ‘Vayalar Stalin,' hero of the legendary Punnapra-Vayalar uprising. Born on November 11, 1936, Mr. Chandrappan did his schooling at Cherthala and Thriupunthura. He graduated from the Chittur Government College and did his postgraduation at University College in Thiruvnanthapuram. As a school student, he was active in student politics. He was elected State president of the All India Students Federation (AISF) in 1956. He later became the national president of the AISF and also served as general secretary and president of the All India Youth Federation. He had actively participated in the Goa liberation movement and had led several student and youth agitations. Mr. Chandrappan was arrested several times and was also put behind bars in the Delhi Tihar and Kolkatta Residency jails.
An outstanding parliamentarian, he was elected to the Lok Sabha three times and once to the State Assembly. In the Lok Sabha, he represented Thalassery in 1971, Kannur in 1977 and Thrissur in 2005. He reached the Assembly in 1991 from Cherthala. From 1970, he was a national council member of the party and is at present its central secretariat member.

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