Pattom A. Thanu Pillai ministry
Praja Socialist Party
Indian National Congress
Indian Union Muslim League
The Pattom A. Thanu Pillai ministry was a Kerala government ministry formed on 22 February 1960 and lasted till 26 September 1962.
Background
After E M S Namboothiripad Government was dismissed, Kerala was under President rule. Elections were held to the legislative assembly on 1 February 1960.[1]
Indian National Congress became the largest party with 63 seats in the assembly after the elections. Communists became the second largest party 26 seats and Praja Socialist Party (PSP) got 20 seats. Congress and PSP formed a coalition government, with Pattom A Thanu Pillai of PSP as the Chief Minister, and R Sankar from Congress as the Deputy Chief Minister. Even though PSP was a junior partner in the coalition, Pattam was chosen as the Chief Minister because the congress leader R Sankar was from Ezhava caste which the Nair Service Society, the main supporters of Congress, disapproved of. Pattam previously held the posts of Prime Minister in the erstwhile Travancore state, and later the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin state. He is the only Chief Minister of Kerala born in 19th century.
V. K. Velappan, the Health Minister of this cabinet, died on 26 August 1962, and was the first state cabinet minister in Kerala to die in office. Pattam resigned on 26 September 1962 when he was posted as the Governor of Punjab. This paved the way for the first Congress chief minister in Kerala under R. Sankar.
Council of Ministers
Minister | Ministry/Portfolio | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pattam A. Thanu Pillai | Chief Minister | Praja Socialist Party |
2 | R. Sankar | Deputy Chief Minister Minister for Finance | Indian National Congress |
3 | P. T. Chacko | Minister for Home Affairs | |
4 | K. A. Damodara Menon | Minister for Industries | |
5 | P. P. Ummer Koya | Department of Education | |
6 | K. T. Achuthan | Minister for Transport & Labour | |
7 | E. P. Poulose | Minister for Food & Agriculture | |
8 | V. K. Velappan | Minister for Public Health & Electricity (expired on 26 August 1962) | |
9 | K. Kunhambu | Minister for Harijan Uplift & Registration | |
10 | D. Damodaran Potti | Minister for Public Works | Praja Socialist Party |
11 | K. Chandrasekharan | Minister for Law & Revenue |
See also
- List of chief ministers of Kerala
- Kerala Council of Ministers
- 1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
References
- ^ "History of Kerala Legislature". Kerala Government. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/Ministers%20Book%20Final.pdf
- "Official website of INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT OF KERALA". prd.kerala.gov.in. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
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