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Edakkad (State Assembly Constituency)
Edakkad was one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India, before the 2008 delimitation of constituencies. It was one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kannur Lok Sabha constituency until the 2008 delimitation. The last election to the constituency was conducted in 2006, and the MLA was Kadannappalli Ramachandran of Congress (Secular). After the delimitation in 2008, Chelora, Edakkad, and Munderi Gram Panchayats became a part of Kannur Assembly constituency, whereas Anjarakkandy, Chembilode, Kadambur, Muzhappilangad, and Peralasseri were added to the newly formed Dharmadam Assembly constituency. Edakkad Assembly constituency came into existence in 1965. It was created by replacing Cannanore-II Assembly constituency which had existed from 1957 to 1965. Local self-governed segments Edakkad Assembly constituency was composed of the following local self-governed segments: The Gram panchayat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannur District
Kannur () is one of the 14 Districts of Kerala, districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of the Malayalam name "Kannur". Kannur district is bounded by Kasaragod District to the north, Kozhikode district to the south, Mahé district to the southwest and Wayanad District to the southeast. To the east, the district is bounded by the Western Ghats, which forms the border with the state of Karnataka (Kodagu district). The Arabian Sea lies to the west. Paithalmala is the highest point in Kannur District (1,372m). Enclosed within the southern part of the district is the Mahé district of the Union Territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. The district was established in 1957. Kannur Municipal Corporation is the sixth-largest urban local body in the state and Kannur Cantonment is the only Cantonment Board in Kerala. Indian Nav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharmadam Assembly Constituency
Dharmadam State assembly constituency is one of the 140 Kerala Legislative Assembly, state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala, in southern India. It is also one of the seven Kerala Legislative Assembly, state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, 2021 assembly elections, the current MLA is Pinarayi Vijayan of Communist Party of India (Marxist), CPI(M). Local self-governed segments Dharmadam Assembly constituency is composed of the following local self-governed segments: Members of Legislative Assembly The following list contains all members of Kerala Legislative Assembly who have represented Dharmadam Assembly constituency during the period of various assemblies: Election results Percentage change (±%) denotes the change in the number of votes from the immediate previous election. 2021 There were 1,93,486 registered voters in Dharmadam Constituency for the 2021 Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern Nationalism, nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other Decolonization, anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire. The INC is a "big tent" party that has been described as sitting on the Centrism, centre of the Indian politics, Indian political spectrum. The party held its first session in 1885 in Mumbai, Bombay where Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, W.C. Bonnerjee presided over it. After Indian independence in 1947, Congress eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
N Ramakrishnan
N Ramakrishnan (13 March 1941 – 1 October 2012) was an Indian politician, affiliated to the Indian National Congress. He served as the state Labour Minister in the Government of Kerala from 1991 to 1995. Early life He was born at Anjarakkandy, Kannur, Kerala on 13 March 1941 to M. K. Raghavan and N. Narayani. He was the eldest of their four children. Political career Ramakrishnan's political career started as a trade unions activist among beedi workers. He organised the beedi workers under Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC). In 1967 he was elected as Youth Congress State Secretary. He was first elected to the Kerala legislative assembly in 1970 from Edakkad constituency of Kerala. He became Kannur DCC President in the year 1971 and went on to serve as the DCC president for 18 years. He was again elected to the Kerala legislative assembly in 1991 and became a minister in Fourth K. Karunakaran ministry, K. Karunakaran's cabinet. He also served as Kerala Pradesh Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a Communism in India, communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six List of political parties in India#National parties, national parties of India. The party was founded through 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964; it quickly became the dominant faction. The 34 years of Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal, CPI(M)-led Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front rule in West Bengal was the longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government in the world. It emerged as the third largest party of the Parliament of India, parliament in 2004 Indian general election, 2004 national election. Presently, CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in two states - the Left Democratic Front, LDF in Kerala, which it lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly Election
The 2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 10 May 2001 to elect members to the Kerala State Assembly. Polls were held simultaneously in all 140 seats and resulted in a voter turnout of 72.47%. The election saw a change of guard in the state with the United Democratic Front winning 99 seats as opposed to the 40 won by the Left Democratic Front. The remaining seat was won by a UDF rebel candidate. This election remains to have been the last one in which the Indian National Congress was the largest party in the legislative assembly, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) emerging as the leading party in every successive election, including in 2011, when the UDF won by a wafer-thin margin of 2 seats. Parties and Alliances Results Constituency-Wise results References {{Kerala Niyamasabha elections Kerala 2011 2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling political parties by country, ruling political party in India under the incumbent Prime Minister of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics and has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Far-right politics, far-right Paramilitary organization, paramilitary organisation. Its policies adhere to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalism, Hindu nationalist ideology. it is the country's biggest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as State legislature (India), state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran)
Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) (DIC(K)) was a political party in Kerala, India. DIC(K) was founded at a meeting in Thrissur by the Kannoth Karunakaran, K. Karunakuran faction of the Indian National Congress on 1 May 2005. Initially it was called National Congress (Indira Gandhi, Indira), but the name was changed DIC(K) for registration purposes in August of the same year. Karunakuran's son K. Muraleedharan was the party president. The party allied with the Left Democratic Front (Kerala), Left Democratic Front in the local elections and made success. But the party was not considered for a tie up during the state assembly elections that followed. The party could not make any impression in the elections as expected. Later, Karunakaran and Muraleedharan, along with some other party members, moved to Nationalist Congress Party. After a brief while, Karunakaran returned to Congress. History The party was formed as a result of internal problems in the Congress Party. The b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannur Municipal Corporation
The Kannur Municipal Corporation is the municipal corporation that administers the city of Kannur, Kerala. Established in 2015, the Corporation's first mayor was E. P. Latha. Kannur Corporation has two assembly constituencies – Kannur Assembly constituency and Azhikode Assembly constituency – both of which are part of the Kannur parliamentary constituency. The Corporation is headed by a Mayor and council, and manages 78.35 km2 of Kannur city, with a population of about 232,486 within that area. Kannur Municipal Corporation has been formed with functions to improve the infrastructure of town. History The ancient port of ''Naura'', which is mentioned in the ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' as a port somewhere north of Muziris is identified with Kannur. Ezhimala was the headquarters of a powerful kingdom who later became Mushika dynasty in the ancient period. Kannur was an important trading centre in the 12th century, with active business connections with Persia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharmadam (State Assembly Constituency)
Dharmadom or Dharmadam is a census town, census village in Thalassery City in Kannur district in the state of Kerala, India. This town is located in between Anjarakandi River and Ummanchira River, and Palayad town and Arabian Sea. It is known for the 100-year-old Brennen College, Government Brennen College, Dharmadam Island, Government Boat Jetty and adjoins famous Muzhappilangad beach. History Dharmadom is a scenic coastal town that was earlier known as "Dharmapattanam". It was an active Buddhist area in ancient times.Arabs called it as Darmaftan. Dharmadom is also home to famous Andalurkavu temple. The annual festival here draws thousands of devotees. A variety of Theyyam is performed at this event. India’s premier circus Academy, Circus Academy Thalassery is also located in Dharmadom. Dharmadom was selected as location for the prominent British Thalassery fort that was built in 1703 but landowners did not want to sell the land. According to ''Qissat Shakarw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannur (State Assembly Constituency)
Kannur Legislative Assembly Constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the seven state legislative assembly constituencies included in Kannur Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 Assembly elections, the current MLA is Kadannappalli Ramachandran of Cong(S). History For the first election conducted to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1957, Kannur city had two Assembly constituencies - Cannanore-I and Cannanore-II. Following the 1965 delimitation, Cannanore-I Assembly constituency was renamed to Kannur while Cannanore-II was replaced by the newly formed Edakkad Assembly constituency. In the 2008 delimitation of constituencies, a major portion of the erstwhile Kannur Assembly constituency was replaced by Azhikode Assembly constituency. Edakkad Assembly constituency became defunct in 2011. A major portion of the erstwhile Edakkad Assembly constituency is now a part of Kannur Assembly constituen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kannur Taluk
Kannur (), formerly known in English as Cannanore, is a city and municipal corporation in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kannur district and situated north of the major port city and commercial hub Kochi and south of the major port city and a commercial hub, Mangalore. During the period of British colonial rule in India, when Kannur was a part of the Malabar District (Madras Presidency), the city was known as Cannanore. Kannur is the fifth largest urban agglomeration in Kerala. As of 2011 census, Kannur Municipal Corporation, the local body which administers mainland area of city, had a population of 232,486. Kannur was the headquarters of Kolathunadu, one of the four most important dynasties on the Malabar Coast, along with the Zamorin of Calicut, Kingdom of Cochin and Kingdom of Quilon. The Arakkal kingdom had right over the city of Kannur and Laccadive Islands in the late medieval period. Kannur municipality was formed on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
