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91-year-old JSS leader creates Kerala poll history
Friday March 18, 2011 07:59:57 PM,
IANS
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Alappuzha (Kerala): With her candidature finalised Friday, 91-year-old K.R. Gouri Amma
has made history in Kerala's electoral politics by becoming the only
candidate to contest all the assembly elections since the state
first went to polls in 1957.
The leader of the Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy (JSS) will
contest the April 13 elections from Cherthala constituency in
Alappuzha district.
Gouri Amma's long political career began with the Communist Party of
India. She was a minister in the first Communist government led by
E.M.S. Namboodiripad which was voted to power in Kerala in 1957.
When the party split in the mid-sixties, Gouri Amma joined the
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).
She was expelled from the party in 1994 after which she launched the
JSS and allied with the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).
Gouri Amma was also a minister in the A.K Antony-led government in
2001.
She has lost the assembly elections only twice - in 1997 and 2006.
K.K. Shaju, the lone JSS legislator in the present assembly, told
IANS Friday that the decision on Gouri Amma's candidature was
unanimous.
"She is returning to Cherthala, where she won in the first and
second Kerala assembly. She is fully geared to fight the polls,"
said Shaju.
Gouri Amma will face sitting Communist Party of India (CPI)
legislator P. Thilothiman.
Defence Minister A.K. Antony had won from this constituency in 1970,
1996 and 2001.
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