V. S. Achuthanandan - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan is an Indian

Indian people

Indian people or Indisians constitute the Asian nation and pan-ethnic group native to India, which forms the south of Asia, containing 17.31% of the world's population. The Indian nationality is in essence made up of regional nationalities, reflecting the rich and complex history of India...

politician and a former Chief Minister

Chief Minister of Kerala

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of the state of Kerala. He had been a member of the Politburo

Politburo

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of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

since 1985, and until July 2009, when he was reverted to the Central Committee of the party owing to his ideological dispositions.

V. S. Achuthanandan was one of the most popular chief ministers in the history of Kerala, with most of the pre and post poll surveys, around the April 2011 assembly elections, choosing him as the best suited for the post of the Chief Minister.

Achuthanandan was one of the founding leaders of the CPI (M)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

in India, and has played a major role in building the party cadre in the state 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....

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Achuthanandan was widely acclaimed for the various actions that he initiated as the Chief Minister including: the demolition drive in Munnar

Munnar

Munnar is one of the most popular hill station in Kerala and in southern India. Munnar is located on the Western Ghats, situated in the Idukki district....

which claimed back acres of illegally occupied land, the demolition drive in Kochi

Kochi

-Places:* Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala, India, formerly known as Cochin* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India** Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi, Kerala, India...

M. G. Road

Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kochi

Mahatma Gandhi Road , popularly known as M. G. Road, is the main artery as well as the commercial high street of the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. The road lies north-south with its boundaries at the Venduruthy bridge, Thevara in the south, and the Madhava Pharmacy Junction in the...

which claimed back the long lost shoulder

Shoulder (road)

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of the road, anti-piracy

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drive against film-piracy

, his struggle against the Lottery

Lottery

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mafia in the state.