A.K.G - From sthyagrahi to Revolutionary

• 1904 Was born in Mavilayi, Kannur District.
  
• 1923 Became schoolteacher in an elementary school.
  
• 1926-29 Participated actively in Congress Party.
  
• 1930 Joined a Satyagraha and was jailed. Became full-time political worker.
  
• 1931 Participated as a Captain of the volunteers, in the Guruvayoor Temple-entry Satyagraha.
  
• 1934 Joined Congress Socialist Party, founded in Kerala.
  
• 1936 Led unemployed jatha from Cannanore to Madras-600 miles on foot.
  
• 1937-38 Participated in workers’ struggles and militant peasant agitations.
  
• 1939 Joined Communist Party.
  
• 1941 Escaped from Vellore Jail.
  
• 1946-47 Jailed and spent Independence Day in prison.
  
• 1948-51 Jailed under preventive detention; case in Supreme Court.
  
• 1951 Elected President of AIKS.
  
• 1952 Elected to Lok Sabha and became Leader of the Communist Party in Parliament.
  
• Elected subsequently in 1957, 1962, 1967 and 1971, Parliamentary elections.
  
• 1952 Visited China and the Soviet Union, attending the 19th Congress of the CPSU.
  
• 1957 Participated in the Samyukta Maharashtra and Mahagujarat movement. Arrested in Gujarat.
  
• Gave leadership to the struggle of retrenched labourers of India Coffee Board which resulted in the formation of Indian Coffee Houses.
  
• 1958 Went to Punjab to aid the peasants in the anti-betterment levy struggle.
  
• 1959 Led the struggles of Amravathi peasants in Kerala and went on prolonged hunger strike.
  
• 1960 Led peasant jatha in Kerala demanding land reform.
  
• 1962 Jailed by the Congress government.
  
• 1963 Led peasants against eviction and police terror in Keerithode, Kerala.
  
• 1963 Among the 32 leaders of the National Council of the CPI who walked out.
  
• 1964 Participated in the Seventh Congress of the CPI(M) elected to the CC and PB in which position he remained till his death.
  
• 1965-66 Jailed by the Congress government.
  
• 1970 Gave leadership to the militant hutment dwellers struggle of agricultural labour in Kerala where scores died in police firings and goonda attacks.
  
• 1972 Participated in the Kerala surplus land struggle and was arrested.
  
• 1975 Arrested under MISA and later released.
  
• 1977 Visited Kannur district to oppose police-Congress repression.
  
• March 22, 1977 Died in Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital after a severe stroke.

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