Kerala’s Oldest Serving MLA and Founding Member of CPI (M), KR Gouri Amma Passes Away at 102

The senior most communist leader of Kerala, KR Gouri Amma, who was the first Revenue Minister in the first communist ministry of the state in 1957, has passed away due to age-related ailments. She was 102.
She was the second longest serving MLA in Kerala Legislative Assembly and also the last surviving member of the first Kerala government.
After the split of Communist Party in 1964, K. R. Gouri joined the newly formed Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Gouri Amma formed and headed the political party Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy (JSS) in 1994 after her ouster from CPI (M).
She was the driving force behind the historic Land Reforms Bill in Kerala.