A. K. Gopalan

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar (1 October 1904 – 22 March 1977), popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician.

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan was born on 1 October 1904 in Peralasseri, Kannur District of Northern Kerala and educated in Tellichery.

He was educated at Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery and at Government Brennen College, Thalassery.

By the time he became a teacher, India's independence movement was becoming energised by Mahatma Gandhi.

Gopalan took part in the Khilafat Movement which prompted a marked change in his outlook, transforming him into a dedicated full-time social and political worker.

He was also involved in Malabar revolution.

In 1927 he joined the Indian National Congress and began playing an active role in the Khadi Movement and the upliftment of Harijans.

He was arrested for participating in the salt satyagraha in 1930.

He led the hunger march from Malabar region to Madras in 1936 and the Malabar Jatha in support of the movement for responsible government in Travancore.

The strongest caste system was in the North Kerala.

The lower caste people were not allowed to walk on a public road in Payyannur.

At this time A.K. Gopalan and the Keralites led the procession through the public road in front of the Kandoth Thiyya caste Temple (Palliyara) near Payyanur, Kannur.

The lower castes were not allowed by the then Thiyyar chiefs to walk on a public road in Kandoth temple.

"This is a time when Harijans are being denied the freedom to travel on public roads."

The reason was that the nearby temple would be defiled.

To promote the Guruvayoor Satyagraha.

The group consisting of Kelappan and Gopalan marched along this route with the Harijans.

As the procession approached the road, a crowd of about 200 people, including young men and women, A.K. Gopalan, Keraliyan and the Harijans were very badly beaten up by the Thiyya leaders.

Gopal and others were later admitted to the hospital.

The attack lasted for half an hour.

This was the first crackdown on Gopalan's political career.

Women came carrying heavy wooden sticks and beat them.

All the people present in Ghosha were beaten by these chiefs.

But A.K.G Standing where Gopalan and Keralian were, he faced the barrage.

Others fled.

A.k.G told the accompanying women to run to safety.

KG demanded.

The attack lasted for half an hour.

The "Kandoth short stick" was infamous in the press of the day.

Many people were injured.

A.K. Gopalan and Keralian fell unconscious.

They were taken by car to the hospital, where they lay unconscious for several hours.

Even the Keralite's death statement was taken.

Took home in the morning This attack K. This was Gopalan's first physical attack in his political career.

But the "Kandoth assault" was an event that found a prominent place in news coverage.

While in prison he got acquainted with communism and became a member of the Congress Socialist Party and later the Communist Party of India when it finally took shape in Kerala in 1939.

The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 prompted an upsurge in activism against British domination, and Gopalan was again arrested.

But in 1942 he escaped from prison and remained at large till the end of the war in 1945.

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).