KR Gouri Amma, Kerala’s seniormost Communist leader, dies at 101
Kerala s seniormost Communist leader and the member of the first elected government, KR Gouri Amma has passed away at the age of 101 years.
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Gouri Amma with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. (File photo)
Kerala s seniormost Communist leader and the member of the first elected government, KR Gouri Amma has passed away at the age of 101 years. Gouri Amma was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram for age-related ailments.
Gouri Amma was the last surviving member of the first Kerala government. Gouri Amma was the first revenue minister of Kerala in the EMS cabinet of 1957. After the Communist Party split in 1964, she became part of CPI(M). In 1994, she was expelled from CPI(M) following internal rifts.
Communist veteran KR Gowri passes away at 102
Communist veteran KR Gowri passes away at 102
Last Updated: Tue, May 11th, 2021, 12:23:15hrs
Kochi: Kerala s veteran politician and member of the first Communist government headed by E M S Namboodiripad in 1957, K R Gowri Amma died in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
She was 102 and had been admitted to a private hospital due to age-related ailments.
She breathed her last at 7 am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment in the ICU, hospital sources said.
Considered to be among the most powerful women leaders in Kerala, Gowri Amma, as she was fondly called, was the lone surviving member of the first Kerala legislative assembly.
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K.R. Gouri, or Gouri Amma as she is affectionately called, the most adored and resilient woman leader of Kerala.
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, aka RBG, the most-celebrated women jurist in the modern world, said in her 1993 testimony to be the associate justice of the Supreme Court of United States of America: “I became a lawyer in days when women were not wanted by most members of the legal profession. When I graduated from the Columbia Law School, not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me.”
Legendary communist leader K.R. Gouri Amma died in a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram early on Tuesday. She was 102.
Having made her peace with the CPM, she made her last journey draped in the flag she swore allegiance to 73 years ago over a secure magisterial job even though she could not realise her wish to return to the fold from which she had been expelled in 1994.
In a reflection of the rapprochement over the recent years, the LDF government in Kerala accorded her full honours and even relaxed the limits on funeral attendance to allow more people to pay their last tributes when the body was kept for public viewing at Thiruvananthapuram’s Ayyankali Hall. The body was then taken to her native district Alappuzha where she was cremated at the Punapara-Vayalar memorial to the martyrs of the uprising of 1946.
Elections in India
May 11, 2021
Four Indian states West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and one union territory, Puducherry, went to the polls from April 6 to April 29 in different phases. The counting took place May 2.
May 2 was a good night for anti-BJP forces as they made gains in several key battleground states. Even though the BJP increased its share of seats in West Bengal, it fell short of getting a simple majority to form the government. The BJP increased its seats in West Bengal from 3 to 79; it also won 4 seats in Tamil Nadu. In Kerala, the BJP failed to win a single seat.