Sunday, June 5, 2011

Aikya Kerala Movement


Aikya Kerala Movement

1-The State Peoples Conference held at Ernakulam (1928) was the earliest resolution on the subject of united Kerala.
2-The Payyannur Political Conference held in May 1928 under the Presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru also supported the Aikya Kerala Movement.
3-An Aikya Kerala Conference was held at Trichur in April 1947 under the presidentship of K.Kelappan.
4-The Cochin Maharaja Sri Kerala Varma proposed the idea of uniting Cochin and Travancore.

5-On July 1, 1949 the State of Travancore Cochin came into existence. The Maharaja of Travancore became the Rajapramukh of the New State.
6-Panampalli Govinda Menon was the last Chief Minister of Travancore Cochin State.The fall of his ministry was followed by the first spell of President’s Rule in Kerala.
7-The first popular ministry in Travancore Cochin was headed by T.K. Narayana Pillai, the Chief Minister of Travancore, at the time of the integration.
8-The state of Kerala formally came into existence or November 1, 1956.
9-The first general elections to the Kerala state Legislature were held in February and March 1957.
10-Communist Ministry under the chiefministership of E.M.S. Namboothiripad came to power.
11-The agitation known as ‘‘Vimochana Samaram’’ or ‘Liberation struggle’ began on June 12, 1959 under the leadership of Mannathu Padmanabhan
to overthrow the Communist Ministry.The Ministry collapsed and the President’s ruleunder the Article 356, for the first time began on31st July 1959.

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