Azhikodan Raghavan was a leader of Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India

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 (Marxist)/CPI(M).
He was born on July 1, 1919 at South Bazar, Kannur. He had his primary education from the 'Model Primary School' attached to Kannur Govt. Training school.After passing Vth std he was forced to discontinue his formal education. He had to take up some job to eke out his living.

In 1940, he was groomed into a true communist by comrade

Comrade

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s P. Krishna Pillai

P. Krishna Pillai

P. Krishna Pillai was a Communist revolutionary from Kerala, India, Kerala's First Communist, Founder of the Communist movement in Kerala, and poet....

 and N.C.Shekhar. He was chosen to be the secretary of Kannur town branch committee in 1946. In June 1951, he was chosen to be the member of the Malabar

Malabar District

Malabar District was an administrative district of Madras Presidency in British India and independent India's Madras State. The British district included the present-day districts of Kannur, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad , and Chavakad Taluk of Thrissur District in the northern part of...

 Committee of the Communist party and re-elected to the post. By that time Com:Azhikodan had left his mark in Kerala politics

Politics

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. He was the secretary of the co-ordination committee of the coalition ministry of 1967.
On the night of September 23, 1972 Com. Azhikodan was hacked to death by the members of an extremist group, who hired by the then ruling congress party under the orders of late K.karunakaran. It is believed that his killing was committed by the instruction of Jayaram padikkal,a senior police officer of kerala police. He was cremated in the public graveyard of Payyambalam beach, Kannur district

Kannur district

Kannur District is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. The town of Kannur is the district headquarters, and gives the district its name. The old name Cannanore is the anglicised form of the Malayalam name Kannur. Kannur District is bounded by Kasaragod District to the north and...

, 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....

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See also

• A K Gopalan
• E K Nayanar
• P. Krishna Pillai
  P. Krishna Pillai
  P. Krishna Pillai was a Communist revolutionary from Kerala, India, Kerala's First Communist, Founder of the Communist movement in Kerala, and poet....
  
  
• E. M. S. Namboodiripad
  E. M. S. Namboodiripad
  Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, , popularly known as EMS, was an Indian Communist leader and the first Chief Minister of Kerala. As the first non-Congress chief minister in independent India, he became the leader of the first democratically elected communist government in the world...
  
  
• E. K. Imbichi Bava
  E. K. Imbichi Bava
  Ezhu Kudikkal Imbichi Bava was an Indian politician and a leader of the Communist Party of India and the best-known politician to come from the municipality of Ponnani. He was member of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha, both the houses of Parliament.-Political career:He began to work for public...