The Sixth Kerala Legislative Assembly Council of Ministers, first E. K. Nayanar ministry, was a

Kerala Council of Ministers Kerala Council of Ministers, are elected legislative members, who are appointed as ministers by the Kerala State Governor to form the executive branch of the Government of Kerala. They hold various portfolios as decided by the Chief Minister o ...

(Kerala Cabinet), the executive wing of

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, led by

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leader

E. K. Nayanar Erambala Krishnan Nayanar (9 December 191919 May 2004) was an Indian Communist politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M). He served three terms as the Chief Minister of Kerala (1980–1981, 1987–1991 and 1996–2001) for ...

from 25 January 1980 to 20 October 1981. It had 17 ministries. Many of its ministers were from

Congress (A) Congress (A) was a political party founded by A. K. Antony when he split from the Indian National Congress (U) a splinter group of the Indian National Congress. The party was primarily active in Kerala. The party merged with the Congress (I) in 1 ...

, a party split off from the

Indian National Congress (Urs) The Indian National Congress (U) was a breakaway faction of the Indira Gandhi-led Congress (I), formed in July 1979 by D. Devaraj Urs, the then Chief Minister of Karnataka. Urs' explanation of the split was the return of Indira's son Sanjay G ...

A K Antony Arackaparambil Kurien Antony (born 28 December 1940) is an Indian politician and attorney who was the 23rd Defence Minister of India. He was Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, from Kerala from 1985 to 1995 and again from 2005 to 2022. He a ...

, when the Congress (Urs) was accused of rampant corruption. Ideological differences among the ruling partners arose, culminating in the withdrawal of support to the ministry by the

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. When the eight-member Kerala Congress (M) also withdrew support to the Government, Nayanar tendered resignation and

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was imposed. The Kerala Council of Ministers, during Nayanar's first term as Chief Minister of Kerala, consisted of:

Ministers

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Ministers

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