Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad(13 June 1909 – 19 March 1998), popularly known as E. M. S., was an Indian Communist leader, Socialist-Marxist theorist, revolutionary, author, historian, social commentator and the first Chief Minister of Kerala state. As the first non Indian National Congress Chief Minister in Republic of India, he became the leader of the first democratically elected Communist government in India.
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