Facts about Kerala Legislative Assembly

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First Legislative Assembly

The first Kerala Legislative Assembly was formed on 5th April 1957.
The state legislature consisted of 126 members plus a nominated Anglo Indian.
The first ministry was set up in 1st November 1956. On 16th March 1957, 128 members took the charge in the legislative assembly.
The first general elections to the Kerala state Legislature were held in February and March 1957.
First elected government of Unified Kerala is Communist Government headed by Chief Minister, EMS Namboothiripad.
It was the first time a communist government was democratically elected to power through Ballot.
Some independent parties supported CPI and thereby they got 65 of the 126 seats.
The protest named, "Vimochana Samaram" was happened on June 12, 1959 which was led by Mannathu Padmanabhan to put an end to the Communist Ministry.
On 31st July 1959, the EMS Ministry was dismissed. State came under the Presidential rule under the Article 356, for the first time began on 31st July 1959.

Second Legislative Assembly

Interim election was conducted in February 1960.
On 9th February the second Legislative Assembly of Kerala was set up.
A coalition ministry under the leadership of Congress and PSP came in to power.
The ministry was in power for 31 months. With the appointment of Pattom Thanu pillai as the governor of Punjab, the ministry resigned.

Third Legislative Assembly

CPI M front had 116 members in an Assembly which had a total strength of 133 members. On 6th March 1967, E.M.S. Namboothiripad ministry came in to power.
D. Damodaran Potti of Indian Socialist Party was elected as the speaker.
On 24th October 1969, E.M.S. submitted his resignation.

Fourth Legislative Assembly

On 4th October 1970, fourth assembly came into existence.
Achutha Menon became the Chief Minister of Kerala in 1970 and served the position till 25th of March 1977.

Fifth Legislative Assembly

It was formed on 22nd March 1977 under the leadership of K. Karunakaran.
K. Karunakaran resigned the Chief Ministership following a court verdict in connection with the ‘Rajan Case’.
On 27th April A.K. Antony formed a coalition ministry. Antony resigned in October 1978.
P.K. Vasudevan Nair, leader of communist party of India formed the coalition ministry on 7th October 1979.
C.H. Muhammed Koya formed another ministry which lasted only a few weeks.
On November 13th the Governor dissolved the assembly.

Sixth Legislative Assembly

Left Democratic Front under CPI (M) got 93 assembly seats in the Election.
On 25th January 1980, a 17 member ministry took up under the leadership of E.K. Nayanar.
After twenty two months Nayanar submitted his resignation following the withdrawal of Kerala Congress.
A new ministry under the leadership of K. Karunakaran came into power on 28th December 1981.
On 17th March 1982, the sixth Assembly was provoked and it leads to the forced presidential rule in the state.

Seventh Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly Election in May 19. K Karunakaran again becomes Chief Minister in May 24.
On 19th May 1982, A ministry under K. Karunakaran (UDF) was sworn in on 24th May.

Eighth Legislative Assembly

Left Democratic Front came to power in March 1987.
EK Nayanar became the chief minister of Kerala in March 26 upon the 8th general election held in March 23.

Ninth Legislative Assembly

United Democratic Front under the leadership of K. Karunakaran came back to power (12th June 1991).
In 1995 A.K. Antony resigned from the cabinet of central government and took the charge of Chief Minister replacing K. Karunakaran.
Karunakaran subsequently elected to the Rajyasabha on his resignation of the membership of the assembly.

Tenth Legislative Assembly

LDF won in Legislative Assembly Election. EK Nayanar became chief minister in May 20.
E.K. Nayanar ministry (1996-2001) came to power.

11th Legislative Assembly

A.K. Antony became the Chief Minister (May 2001).
A.K Antony resigned on 2004 and Oommen Chandy sworn in as the Chief Minister.

12th Legislative Assembly

V.S. Achuthanandan became Chief Minister (13-5-2006)
Oommen Chandy - Opposition Leader

13th Legislative Assembly

Oommen Chandy - Chief Minister (2011 - 2016).
V.S. Achuthanandan - Opposition Leader

14th Legislative Assembly

Pinarayi Vijayan, CPI(M) (LDF) - Chief Minister (2016 - )
Ramesh Chennithala, INC (UDF) - Opposition Leader

PRESIDENT RULE IN KERALA

March 23, 1956 – April 04, 1957
August 31, 1956 – February 22. 1960
September 10, 1964 – March 06, 1967
August 04, 1970 – October 03, 1970
December 05, 1979 – January 25, 1980
October 21, 1981 – December 27, 1981
March 17, 1982 – May 23, 1982

CHIEF MINISTERS OF KERALA

E.M.S. Namboodirpad (1957-59)
Pattom A Thanupillai (1960-62)
R. Shankar (1962-64)
E.M.S. Namboodirpad (1967-69)
C. Achutha Menon (1969-70)
C. Achutha Menon
K. Karunakaran (1977-77)
A.K. Antony (1977-78)
P.K. Vasudevan Nair (1978-79)
C.H. Mohammed Koya (1979-79)
E.K. Nayanar (1980-81)
Karunakaran (1981-82)
K. Karunakaran (1982-87)
E.K. Nayanar (1987-91)
K. Karunakaran (1991-95)
A.K. Antony (1995-96)
E.K. Nayanar (1996-2001)
A.K. Antony (2001-2004)
Oommen Chandy (2004-2006)
V.S. Achuthanandan ( 2006- 2011)
Oommen Chandy (2011 - 2016)
Pinarayi Vijayan (2016 - )

First Ministry of Kerala (1957)

Chief Minister - E.M.S. Namboothiripad
Minister for Finance - C. Achutha Menon
Minister for Transport - T.V. Thomas
Minister for Food, Forest - K.C. George
Minister for Industry - K.P. Gopalan
Minister for P.W.D - T.A. Majeed
Minister for Local Self Government - Minister for P.K.Chathan
Minister for Education, Co-operation - Joseph Mundassery
Minister for Land Tax, Excise - K.R. Gauri
Minister for Law, Electricity - V.R. Krishna Iyer
Minister for Health - Dr. A.R. Menon

COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (2011 - 2016)

Chief Minister - Oommen Chandy
Minister for Industries, Information Technology and Urban Affairs - P. K. Kunhalikutty
Minister for Finance Law and Housing - K. M. Mani
Minister for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Printing & Stationery - K. P. Mohanan
Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Registration - Anoop Jacob
Minister for Forest, Sports and Cinema - K. B. Ganesh Kumar
Minister for Labour & Rehabilitation - Shibu Baby John
Minister for Power & Transport, Railway, Postal & Telegraph - Aryadan Muhammed
Minister for Home and Vigilance – Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan
Minister for Revenue, Coir – Adoor Prakash
Minister for Rural Development, Planning and Culture – K.C. Joseph
Minister for Welfare of SC & Backward Classes and Tourism – A.P. Anil Kumar
Minister for Co-operation – C.N. Balakrishnan
Minister for Excise and Ports, Fisheries – K. Babu
Minister for Health, Devaswom – V. S. Sivakumar
Minister for Welfare of ST , Youth Affairs, Museum & Zoos – P.K. Jayalakshmi
Minister for Works - V.K. Ebrahimkunju
Minister for Education - P. K Abdu Rabb
Minister for Panchayat, Social Welfare - M.K. Muneer
Minister for Water Resources - P.J. Joseph
Minister for Urban Affairs and Welfare - Manjalamkuzhi Ali

PRESENT COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (2016 - 2021)

Chief Minister - Pinarayi Vijayan
Minister for Industries, Sports and Youth Affairs – EP Jayarajan
Minister for Transport – AK Saseendran
Minister for Finance, Coir – TM Thomas Isaac
Minister for Public Works & Registration – G Sudhakaran
Minister for Power – MM Mani
Minister for Agriculture – VS Sunil Kumar
Minister for Revenue, Housing – E. Chandrasekharan
Minister for Food & Civil Supplies – P. Thilothaman
Minister for Welfare of SC & Backward Classes and Law, Culture, Parliamentary Affairs – AK Balan
Minister for Co-operation, Tourism, Devaswom – Kadakampally Surendran
Minister for Cashew Industry, Fisheries – J. Mercykutty Amma
Minister for Health, Social Justice – KK Shailaja Teacher
Minister for Forest, Animal Husbandry & Zoos – K. Raju
Minister for Local Self Government – AC Moideen
Minister for Higher Education and Welfare of Minority – K. T. Jaleel
Minister for General Education - C. Raveendranath
Minister for Labour & Excise – TP. Ramachandran
Minister for Water Resources - K.Krishnankutty
Minister for Ports, Museums, Archaeology - Ramachandran Kadannappally