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Glimpses of history

Staff Reporter

REMINISCENCES: District panchayat president P.S. Shyla at an exhibition organised by the Department of Archaeology to mark the 50th anniversary of the first State Government. - Photo: Vipinchandran

KOCHI: The travelling show of documented history of the first democratically elected Government in the State is stopping by the city for three days. The exhibition of photographs and copies of bills presented by the E.M.S. Namboodiripad-led Government was inaugurated at the EMS Memorial Town Hall here on Wednesday.

Inaugurating the show, Sebastian Paul, MP, said that some of the 88 bills that the Government had presented during its period of just over two years, like the Kerala Education Bill, were still being referred to and studied. The Government assumed office on April 5, 1957, and was dismissed by the Union Government by evoking Article 356 of the Indian Constitution on July 31, 1959.

These bills were taken up as referred to in Constitution history classes, as no one can progress by ignoring history. The EMS Government had proposed setting up of panchayat courts. This did not materialise. But the proposal was now being actively considered by the Centre.

Records about Swadesabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai will be found only at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. District panchayat president P.S. Shyla presided and Rejikumar, director, and Josephath, deputy director of State Archives, spoke.

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