Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurayil Abdulla Kutty was a member of the 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Kannur Lok Sabha constituency

Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kannur is a Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala. Previously named as Cannanore, it was created in 1977.-Assembly segments:Kannur Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following assembly segments:#Irikkur#Azhicode#Kannur#Edakkad#Kuthuparamba#Peravoor...

 of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 for over two decades. He had his collegiate education from S. N. College, Kannur

Kannur

Kannur , also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the District of Kannur and 518km north of state capital Trivandrum. During British rule in India, Kannur was known by its old name Cannanore, which is still in...

 and acquired his law degree from Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

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.

Expulsion from CPI(M)

On 17 January 2009, CPI(M) Mayyil Area committee suspended Abdullakutty from the party for one year for praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's development model.
He had earlier expressed the opinion that bandhs and hartals were detrimental to the State's ineterests. He had also announced that he was a believer in Islam and followed this up with a visit to the mosque to participate in the Ramadan prayers.
He was expelled from the Party in March 2009. The expulsion of Abdullakutty from the CPI(M) was not wholly unexpected as it was the culmination of a rift between him and the party leadership in the district and the Modi-praising episode is viewed by many as a pretext for the same.

Abdullakutty joined the Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

 in April 2009. He contested as an INC candidate for the Kannur Assembly constituency and won in the byelection held in November 2009.

External links

• Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
• http://abdullakutty.com/newsarticles.html
• http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/09/stories/2009030954970400.htm
• http://www.mathrubhumi.org/news.php?id=11125&cat=1&sub=14&subit=0
• http://news.keralakaumudi.com/news.php?nid=a48e7b44459db0d45821d5bc6dc1c5ce
• http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123339&n_type=HO&category_id=1
• http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Abdullakutty_finds_out_CPM_is_not_India_Inc/articleshow/3980270.cms
• http://www.indianexpress.com/news/now-abdullakutty-hails-modi-wants-kerala-to-follow-his-example/404287/
• http://www.zeenews.com/states/2009-01-16/499204news.html
• http://in.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/15inter.htm