C. M. Padmanabhan Nair - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Early life

C.M.Padhmanabhan Nair was born in Trikarpur

Trikarpur

Trikaripur is a Special Grade Panchayat situated at extreme southern part of Kasaragod District in North Malabar region of the Kerala State, India. This Panchayath consists of two villages viz. South Trikarpur and North Trikarpur...

village 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....

. He was born rich but spent all his wealth for serving society. He was born in a famous Chandera Madiyan family. C.M. Kunhikammaran Nair, C.M Gopalakrishnan Nair and CM Kunhiraman Nair were his brothers. Late Dr. C.M.Chakrapani was his nephew Who died in -29-March-2006.

Marriage

The famous poet Vallathol had very close friendship with CMP and even wanted him to establish a permanent relationship with his family through marriage, as indicated in their correspondence. He also visited CMP in 1949. However, for some reason, perhaps astrological, CMP married Puravangara Indira Amma, related to another notable poet P. Kunhiraman Nair

P. Kunhiraman Nair

P. Kunhiraman Nair , also known as Mahakavi P, was a renowned Malayalam poet whose works romanticised the natural beauty of his home state of Kerala in southern India and juxtaposed it with the hard realities of his life and times.Born in Bellikoth near Kanhangad of North Malabar, P., as he is...

Political life

Initially he worked for ordnance factories in various north Indian cities. However, he got attracted to Indian Independence movement

Indian independence movement

The term Indian independence movement encompasses a wide area of political organisations, philosophies, and movements which had the common aim of ending first British East India Company rule, and then British imperial authority, in parts of South Asia...

and came back to 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....

after resigning. Inspired by the socialistic philosophy of Jaya Prakash Narayan and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia

Ram Manohar Lohia

Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...

, he joined the Socialist party (India)

Socialist Party (India)

Socialist Party has been the name of several political parties in India, all of which have their roots in the Congress Socialist Party formed during the freedom struggle...

when it was formed. He contested in the first election in Madras assembly from Hosdurg against the Melath Narayanan Nambiar in 1951. See election reports on the website of Election Commission of India

Election Commission of India

The Election Commission of India is an autonomous, quasi-judiciary constitutional body of India. Its mission is to conduct free and fair elections in India...

http://www.eci.gov.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_MADRAS.pdf. Though he lost the election, he continued to build the Socialist Party in Kerala which merged with Janata Party

Janata Party

The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

in 1977.

Business Life

After spending his hereditary and earned wealth for society and politics, during 1960s he got disillusioned with politics and started a stationary store in Trikaripur. Unfortunately he could not sustain the shop as most of his customers were poor people who did were not bale to pay their debts.

He then started CM Agency representing the Patanwala company in Bombay. When he went to Bombay to discuss the business deal, socilaist party members gave him a memorable welcome. He was also given Gold medal by Mr B.D.Jetty (Ex Chief minister of Karnataka and Ex President of India)for his achievements during this tenure. However, he was not happy and wanted to create employments by becoming an entrapreneur. He attempted doing various businesses such as hotel, news paper, finance etc. but he could not sacrifice his humanitrain values for business. He soon realised that he cannot succeed in business and went to various holy places without informing anyone.

Return to Political Life

After a few failed business ventures, he came back to Kerala in response to an invitation from K. Chandrasekharan and M.P. Veerendrakumar. Active members of socialist party such as Sri Karthambu Mistri and Sri Koran Master played an important role in convincing him to return to politics. After coming back he served as the Chairman of the party at Cannanore district. He started living in Bellikoth

Bellikoth

Bellikoth or ' is a small village in Ajanur Panchayat,near Kanhangad, in Kasargod district of Kerala state, India.-Personalities:Bellikoth has been the birthplace famous poet Maha Kavi P. Kunhiraman Nair and famous freedom fighter and author Vidwan P. Kelu Nair...

, Ajanoor

Ajanoor

-History:Ajanoor is a small village in Kasargode district of Kerala state, India. Ajanur became a panjayat after independence and Sri. P.Krishnan Nair served as the first president of the panjayat for many years...

, Kanhnagad in the house inherited by his wife.

His Contributions during Emergency

He was one of the few leaders who actively and courageously opposed emergency declared by the Government. He was arrested during emergency and placed in Jail till 1977 when the emergency was lifted.

Contributions to Cooperative Sector

He played a critical role in establishing many cooperative institutions in Kerala. He has held positions in many such coopertaive societies such as Trikaripur Coopertaive Bank, Cooperative Store, Rural Housing Society, Malabar District bank, Nileswaram, Coconut Marketing Society and so forth. His term as president of Kottacherry Cooperative Society is noteworthy due to the progress he made during his tenure(1977–1978).

Death

He expired on June 11, 1978 due to a heart attack. The people of Trikarpur have built a library in the town in his name as a memorial.

Janata Party National Executive council held on July 11, 1978 under the Prime Minister Morarji Desai had honored him and a few other party leaders by observing silence for a minute as per the minutes of the meeting published.http://books.google.com/books?id=BgUE24CubJcC&dq=C.M.P.Nair&source=gbs_navlinks_s