Veteran Kerala politician K R Gouri Amma passes away

Former minister and JSS chief K R Gouri Amma handed away in Kerala on the age of 102.
K R Gouri amma was the one surviving member of the 1957 EMS Namboodiripad cabinet in Kerala, the primary democratically elected communist authorities anyplace on the planet.
A firebrand chief, K R Gouri served because the income minister within the first state cabinet headed by veteran Communist chief late E M Sankaran Namboothripad, which got here to energy in April 1957. As the income minister, she introduced the Agrarian Relations Bill within the first state ministry within the yr 1959. She was expelled from the CPI(M) in 1993 over alleged anti-party actions.
Later, she shaped the Janadhipathya Samrakshana Samithi (JSS), a political outfit that grew to become a part of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF), and have become a minister within the UDF-led authorities between 2001 and 2006. However, she severed ties with the UDF in 2016 following variations with the Congress management.
(With inputs from PTI)