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· The State Peoples Conference held at Ernakulam (1928) was
the earliest resolution on the subject of united Kerala
· The Payyannur Political Conference held in May 1928 under
the Presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru also supported the Aikya Kerala Movement
· An Aikya Kerala Conference was held at Trichur in April
1947 under the presidentship of K Kelappan
· The Cochin Maharaja Sri Kerala Varma proposed the idea of
uniting Cochin and Travancore
· On July 1, 1949 the State of Travancore-Cochin came into
existence. The Maharaja of Travancore became the Rajapramukh of the New State
· The popular ministry of Travancore-Cochin was headed by T.K
Narayana Pillai, the Chief Minister of Travancore at the time of integration
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· Panampalli Govinda Menon was the last Chief Minister of
Travancore-Cochin state. The fall of his ministry was followed by the first spell
of President’s Rule in Kerala
· The state of Kerala formally came into existence on
November 1,1956
· The first general elections to the Kerala state
Legislature were held in February and March 1957
· In the first general elections the Communist Party of
India and a few independent supported by it secured 65 of the 126 seats. The President
rule came to an end on April 15, 1957 and EMS Namboothiripad came to power
· The agitation known as “vimochana Samaram” or ‘Liberation
struggle” began on June 12, 1959 under the leadership of Mannathu Padmanabhan to
overthrow the Communist Ministry
· The Ministry collapsed and the Presidents rule under the
Article 356, for the first time began on 31st July 1959.
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