The first revenue minister of Kerala state and one of the founding leaders of the Communist movement in Kerala, is no more. Smt K R Gouri Amma is dead.She was heading the Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy party.
With her candidature to Kerala Assembly Election in 2011, then 92-year-old K.R. Gouri Amma has made history and she was a sure entry to the Guinness Book of World Records. Gouri Amma was the only candidate to contest all the assembly elections till 2011 since the state first went to polls in 1957.
Gouri Amma’s candidature in 2011 had raised many an eyebrow for she contesting at such an old age when most other individuals retire from all activities at 70 at the most. The energy she gave to all others was very much as it persuades unoccupied people to do something rewarding in life. Though she was expelled from the Marxist party in 1994, the Marxist leaders were good in terms witth her just because of her unbridled courage and positive attitude to human life.
Long live the memory of Gouri Amma and her optimistic outlook.
- K A Solaman
