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Achuthanandan was one of the 32 leaders of the undivided Communist Party of India to go out in 1964 and make India’s Communist Party (Marxist).

He served as the Chief Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011, and 1991–1996, 2001–2006 and 2011-2016 as opposition leader for three conditions.

In eight decades in his political life, Achuthanandan is known as an icon of tireless fighting spiritStarting from the period of independence, his career is closely associated with the socio-political history of modern Kerala.

A politician of struggle and movement, Communist Lumunary, donated a large -scale leftist movement and separate mantles in the society. At different points in his life, he has been the organizer of the ground level workers, an underground revolutionary, an election manager, the conscience of the civil society, his party’s crowd, a public interest litigator, an anti-corruption crusadeer and a voice organizer for green movements. He maintained a line of rebellion throughout his political life.

Vs Achuthanandan with Pinarayi Vijayan. (Express Archive)

He was the CPI (M) State Secretary from 1980 to 1992, when the state coalition politics was settled. He also worked as the convenor of the Left Democratic Front from 1996 to 2000.

Born on October 20, 1923 in Pannpara village in Alappuzha district, Achuthanandan lost his mother, Ekmama, when he was just four years old and his father, Shankaran, when he was 11 years old.

The first break in his political career came in 1940, when he attended a coir factory in Alappuzha .. (Express Archives)

The following year, he dropped out of class 7 and began working at Elder Brother Gangadharan’s Tailoring Shop, which regularly saw the locals leaving for informal chats on politics.

Over the years, he himself developed interest in politics, and joined the State Congress. After turning 17, he became a member of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI).

The teenage communist was deputed to work between fishermen of Alppuzha in his home district, Todi-Taper and climbers of coconut tree.

His first break in his political career came in 1940, when he attended a coir factory in Alappuzha. There, Communist leader Comrade P Krishna Pillai urged him to urge the workers to bring them closer to the movement and fight them for their rights.

The teenage communist was deputed to work between fishermen, todi-toppers and climbers of coconut tree. (Express Archives)

The Pannapra-Vyar Rebellion of October 1946 was another defined program in the construction of the versus organizer. He motivated the workers to fight against the plan of Travancore Diwan CP Ramaswamy Iyer for an independent state apart from the Indian Union. At the behest of the party, he went underground to avoid the arrest of Diwan by the police. Hiding in the Poonar, he was unprotected by the police and was subject to brutal torture. He was later imprisoned for about five years during and after the freedom struggle.

Meanwhile, the Achuthanandan ran through the rank of CPI. He became a member of the CPI State Committee in 1954, and was promoted to the State Secretariat three years later.

When the first Communist government in Kerala took over in 1957, Achuthandan led the party in Kollam district by winning nine out of nine out of 11 assembly seats in the election. The campaign realizing their ability to run machinery, Party sent AchuthanandanThen to manage the 1958 by -election held on the high boundaries of Devikulam in Iduki in 35, 1958.

When the CPI was divided as a collapse of a prolonged internal-party conflict on the political strategy in 1964, the VS was one of the 32 National Council members to walk out of the meeting, formed the CPI (M). Others included Joati Basu, Ak Gopalan, EMS Namboodiripad, Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Ek Nayar.

Vs. tried to start his legislative career during the 1965 assembly elections, contested from Ambalapuzha constituency, but lost. However, in 1967 and 1970, he won from the same seat.

During the Emergency, he was arrested and imprisoned for 21 months.

In 1980, when the state turned into a laboratory for coalition politics, VS was selected as the Secretary of CPI (M) – a post that he had held for 12 years by 1992.

Achuthanandan with former Andhra Pradesh CM Rajasekhar Reddy in 2007. (Express Archives)

His time as the party’s state secretary was marked by the symptoms of political insistence unrelatedness. In 1986, MV Raghavan, a powerful leader of the party stronghold in Kannur, was excluded for his efforts to join the left front. In 1994, the leader of the leader of the Vs. Firebrand, Kirda, played an important role in the dismissal of Gauri Amma.

In 1991, Achuthanandan became the Leader of the Opposition. However, when the party returned to power in 1996, he lost the election in the party stronghold Marriculam in Alappuzha in a shock.

Achuthanandan, after the 1996 election shock and failure to maintain the post of party state secretary after 1992, left many battles within the party in the next years.

At the state conference held in 1998, VS almost displayed a rival group in the party’s trade union wing, city, showing that he retained his clot to determine the conditions within the party.

The changing equations led to a redistribution of war lines within the party, and for about 15 years, which began from the early 2000s, CPI (M) witnessed the recurring matches of a quarrel between Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan. Shakti struggle between the party’s two veterans came with undercontinent of personal enmity and ideological differences.

With every passing year, Achuthanandan was losing the field for Vijayan at the party. However, in the Civil Society, Achuthanandan was winning heart, emerging as a crowd puller and making many social issues champions.

Between 2001 and 2006, his tenure as the Leader of the Opposition was a watershed moment for VS’s political career. Knowing as a ruthless communist, he turned into a beloved of the public. VS drowned on every social issue, visited across the state, visited the places of movement and stood with collective emotions on all issues.

Achuthanandan with CPIM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Express Archives)

In the 2006 assembly elections, the octazerian played an important role in ensuring the victory of landslides for the Left Democratic Front.

He was made the Chief Minister, and his tenure was a stormy, in which the government was buffed by the bittering of the intra-party and conflicting stand on policy matters. Even Achuthanandan revived his image as a crusade against social evils and corruption, all the people standing with the CM at the party either became silent or exit.

In the 2011 elections, VS inspired LDF for a photo finish, leaving the Congress with 72 seats in the 140-firm Assembly. In 2016, at the age of 92, the vs were in the electoral fray, which led the LDF campaign. Despite the age of age, the vs LDF craved for another innings on the hull in the winning position.

However, it was Vijayan which the party selected as the Chief Minister in 2016. The VS was given a cabinet rank and adjusted as the Chairman of the State Administrative Reforms Commission from 2016 to 2021.

As an MLA from the Malmmpuzha constituency between 2001 and 2021, there was an active attendance in the state assembly until VS fell ill in 2019.