A. K. Gopalan
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Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. Later he became one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Gopalan on a 1990 stamp of India
A.K. Gopalan (left)
Statue of Gopalan in Kannur
AKG memorial in Thiruvananthapuram
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant fraction.
Guerrillas of the Telangana armed struggle (1946–1951)
CPI election campaign in Karol Bagh, Delhi, for the 1952 Indian general election
Swearing-in ceremony of E. M. S. Namboodiripad as first Chief Minister of Kerala, April 1957
A tableau in a CPI(M) rally in Kerala, India showing two farmers forming the hammer and sickle.