V.S. ACHUTHANANDAN, CHIEF MINISTER OF KERALA
Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan
V.S. ACHUTHANANDAN ELECTED AS THE CHIEF MINISTER OF KERALA : Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, Communist politician from Kerala, India. Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 1985. He entered the world of politics through Trade Union activities. Joined State Congress in 1938. He became member of the Communist Party in 1940. He was imprisoned for five years and six months; and has gone under ground for four and half years in his decades old political career. He was active in the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising. He was one among the 32 comrades who left the CPI National Council in 1964 to form the CPI(M). Secretary of the Kerala State Committee between 1980 and 1992, Member of the Polit Bureau since 1985, Elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1967, 1970, 1991 and 2001, Leader of Opposition from 1992 to 1996 and from 2001 till May 2006 when he became the Chief Minister of Kerala.
Velikakathu Shankaran Achuthanandan popularly known as "Comrade VS", belongs to a rare brand of leaders.For him, leadership didn't come in a platter. Neither does he see leadership just as a token of appreciation for the hardships he underwent, earlier in his political life. The responsibilities entitled on him is accepted as a mandate to share the hardships even more. At 83, you can find him with a youthful exuberance and in the midst of people whenever and wherever an atrocity is done. It's his passion for the soil, its sons that makes him a man of the masses.A humanitarian to the core, no barrier could ever stop him from his life motto.Resolute,uncompromising and with a clean image, he carries with him the dreams of the common man on the street.
