C. K. Chandrappan (10 November 1935 – 22 March 2012) was a politician from

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

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. He was the Kerala state secretary of the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

(CPI) and the president of

All India Kisan Sabha All India Kisan Sabha ( AIKS; lit. ''All India Farmers Union'', also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha), is the peasant or farmers' wing of the Communist Party of India, an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 19 ...

at the time of his death. He was a member of the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

representing the

Thalassery (Lok Sabha constituency) Kannur Lok Sabha constituency ( ml, കണ്ണൂര്‍ ലോക്സഭാ മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. Assembly Segments Kannur Lok Sabha constituency ...

from 1971 to 1977,

Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency) Kannur Lok Sabha constituency ( ml, കണ്ണൂര്‍ ലോക്സഭാ മണ്ഡലം) is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. Assembly Segments Kannur Lok Sabha constituency ...

from 1977 to 1980 and

Thrissur (Lok Sabha constituency) Thrissur is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the state of Kerala in southern India. It consists of seven assembly segments in Thrissur district. Assembly segments Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the fol ...

from 2004 to 2009. Chandrappan served as Member of the

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from 1991 to 1996 representing Chertala.

Political life

Chandrappan started his political life when he was a member of leftist youth federations in the 1970s. He took part in the

Goa liberation movement The Goa liberation movement was a movement which fought to end Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, Portuguese India. The movement built on the small scale revolts and uprisings of the 19th century, and grew powerful during the period 1940–196 ...

and was jailed as a political prisoner on various occasions in Delhi, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram.

Death

C. K. Chandrappan died in

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

on 22 March 2012 at the age of 76, due to cancer.

References

External links

Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
{{14th LS members from Kerala People from Alappuzha district 2012 deaths 1935 births India MPs 2004–2009 Communist Party of India politicians from Kerala India MPs 1977–1979 India MPs 1971–1977 Lok Sabha members from Kerala Kerala MLAs 1991–1996