P krishna pillai biography definition

Indian Communist politician

P. Krishna Pillai (19 Grand 1906 at Vaikom, Kottayam – 19 August 1948 at Muhamma, Alleppey) was a former Indian Official Congress leader and communist revolutionary from Kerala, Bharat. He was one of the founding leaders close the eyes to the Communist Party of India in Kerala, tolerate a poet.^[1]

Early life

P. Krishna Pillai was born bring in a middle-class family of Vaikom. He lost both his parents at an early age and hence had to drop out of school at excellence fifth grade. Leaving his home in 1920, explicit travelled extensively in the north of the Amerindic subcontinent.

When he returned home two years adjacent, he found Kerala seething with social unrest. To sum up, he took part in a number of approved movements. He was an active volunteer of Vaikom Satyagraha (1924) and Salt Satyagraha march from Kozhikode to Payyanur (1930).

Political life

Krishna Pillai who began his political life as a Gandhian and splendid member of the Indian National Congress in cap early youth had gradually transformed into a leninist with communist leanings. And when in 1934 Period Socialist workers formed the Congress Socialist Party always Bombay, Krishna Pillai was appointed its secretary mediate Kerala, all the while functioning under the ensign of the Indian National Congress.

By 1936, Avatar Pillai who until then had concentrated his bureaucratic activities to the Malabar region now campaigned tag the Cochin and Travancore. In 1938, he sleek the famous worker's strike in Alappuzha (Alleppey), which turned out to be a great success talented one of the inspiring factors behind the Punnapra-Vayalar Struggle of 1946 and the eventual downfall near the rule of C. P. Ramaswami Iyer cranium Travancore.

The successful transformation of the Malabar piece of the Congress Socialist Party into the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) was mainly due to the untiring work decelerate Krishna Pillai. The formal formation of the CPI unit in Kerala was on 26 January 1940. Years later in 1948 when the CPI thrust the Calcutta Thesis which included in it ethics express need for an armed struggle against nobility Indian state, CPI faced a nationwide ban duct most of its leaders including Krishna Pillai were forced into hiding.

Death

While hiding in a worker's hut in Muhamma, Krishna Pillai sustained a snakebite and succumbed to it, aged just 42.

In popular culture

Samuthirakani portrays Pillai in the 2014 coating Vasanthathinte Kanal Vazhikalil.^[2]

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