Kerala Facts 5

കേരള രാഷ്ട്രീയവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ചോദ്യങ്ങളാണ് ഇന്നത്തെ പാഠത്തിൽ

• State which is known as political laboratory of India

                   Kerala

• First Indian woman to become a member of a legislative assembly

                   Thottakkadu Madhaviamma

• No of ministers of first Kerala Legislative Assembly

                   11 (One women minister - KR Gowri)

• No of women members of first Kerala Legislative Assembly

                   6 (Total 127 members in first assembly. One nominated and 126 selected)

• No of constituencies for first Kerala Legislative Assembly

                   114  (From 12 constituencies, two members each)

• First election of Kerala Legislative Assembly was held on

                   1957 February 28-March 11

• First ministry of Kerala came into power on

                   1957 April 5 (First meeting of legislative assembly was held on 27th April 1957)

• First ministry of Kerala was dismissed on

                   1959 July 31

• First prime minister of Kochi

                   Panamballi Govinda Menon (Last prime minister Ikkanda Warrior)

• First prime minister of Travancore

                   Pattom Thanupillai (Last prime minister Paravur TK Narayana Pillai)

• First Chief minister of Travancore- Kochi

                   Paravur T K Narayana Pillai (Last Chief minister : Panampilli Govinda Menon)

• Incident which led to overthrow of the first Kerala Ministry

                   Vimochana Samaram or Liberation Struggle 1959

• First Indian ministry that was dismissed as per article 356

                   EMS Ministry

• First elected member in first Kerala Legislative assembly

                   U Umesh Rao (Mancheswaram)

• First opposition leader in Kerala legislative assembly

                   P T Chacko (Second was EMS Namboothiripad)

• Longest serving opposition leader in Kerala legislative assembly

                   EMS Namboothiripad

• First person who was expelled from Kerala assembly due to Anti Defection Law

                   R Balakrishna Pilla (By the speaker Varkala Radhakrishnan)

• Youngest minister of Kerala

                   Ramesh Chennithala (Youngest MLA : R Balakrishna Pillai)

• Whose autobiography was Prisoner 5990

                   R Balakrishna Pilla

• First IAS officer who was elected from Kerala assembly

                   Alphons Kannanthanam

• Kottayam district collector when it was declared as India's first completely literate district

                   Alphons Kannanthanam

• Keralite who has been elected to central ministry recently

                   Alphons Kannanthanam (Minister of state for Tourism, Electronics and IT)

• First Malayalee to become the member of central cabinet

                   Dr John Mathai (First Malayali to become central finance minister)

• Only minister who was not a member of Kerala assembly

                   K Muraleedharan

• First Kerala minister who failed in by-election

                   K Muraleedharan

• First minister of Kerala who later became the supreme court judge

                   VR Krishna Iyer

• The film star who became minister of Kerala

                   KB Ganesh Kumar

• Present number of members in Kerala legislative assembly

                   141 (One nominated member from Anglo Indian Community)

• Present number of members from Kerala in 16th Lok Sabha

                   21 (Anglo Indian nominee from Kerala to Lok Sabha is Richard Hay)

• Present number of members from Kerala in Rajya Sabha

                   10 (Film actor nominated to present Rajya Sabha is Suresh Gopi)

• First speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly

                   R Sankara Narayanan Thampy

• First speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in Harness

                   KM Siti Sahib (Second G Karthikeyan)

• First minister of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in Harness

                   VK Velappan

• First protem speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly

                   Rosamma Punnoose

• The speaker who served for the longest period

                   Vakkom Purushothaman (Longest continuously served speaker : M Vijayakumar)

• The speaker who served for the shortest period

                   AC Jose

• Youngest speaker of Kerala

                   CH Muhammad Koya

• First speaker who completed his tenure

                   M Vijayakumar

• Assembly that had the longest tenure

                   4th 1970-77 (Shortest 6th 1980-82)

• Chief minister of the fourth Kerala legislative assembly

                   C Achutha Menon

• MLA who was elected with largest majority

                   M Chandran (2006, Alathur)

• MLA who was elected with shortest majority

                   AA Aziz (2005 Iravipuram- 5 votes)

• Legislative assembly that had maximum no of women members

                   10th (13 members)

• Legislative assembly that had least no of women members

                   3rd (One member)

• Oldest member of Kerala legislative assembly

                   VS Achuthanandan

• Longest serving MLA of Kerala legislative assembly

                   KM Mani (Member in most no of legislative assemblies-12)

• Longest serving woman MLA of Kerala legislative assembly

                   KR Gouri Amma

• Shortest served MLA of Kerala legislative assembly

                   C Haridas (10 Days)

• Shortest served minister of Kerala legislative assembly

                   MP Veerendrakumar

• Person who represent one legislative constituency most no of times

                   KM Mani (Pala)

• Longest serving Rajya Sabha member from Kerala

                   BV Abdulla Koya

• Kerala legislative assembly election of 2016 was of

                   15th (Assembly formed in 2016 was of 14th as there was no assembly formed in 1965)

• Electronic voting machine was introduced for the first time in India at

                   North Paravur

• Presidential rule was enforced for the first time in Kerala during

                   1956 March 23-1957 April 4

• Presidential rule was enforced for the last time in Kerala during

                   1982 March 17-1982 May 23

• How many times Kerala came under presidential rule

                   7
                                                                            (To be Continued...)