A COMMUNIST TREACHERY.....1939

E.M.S - AS C.S.P.SECRETARY(1935-39)

(Read as the continuation of the previous story.................)
After the resignation of C.K.Govindan Nair, E.M.S.Nambootthirippadu has been selected or nominated as the general secretary of the state unit of the Congress Socialist Party(C.S.P). Right from the beginning of the Socialist movement, E.M.S. has been a follower f this. He has participated the formation meeting and was elected as the all India Joint Secretary in the 1935 National Conference. As an enthusiastic youth with wide reputation in Malabar, a British territory then, will have lead the party into a glorious future, it was the belief of the national leadership. True. It was correct. He lifted the party from the starting trouble and juvenile difficulties. But he usurped the strength of the Socialist group and used it to strengthen the Communist Party in Kerala. It was a notorious cheating as the Socialist Movement has ever seen.

When in the first days of his tenure as the state secretary, he acted as a good and committed Socialist. He lead the movement of peasants’ and laborers’ movement. A t that time a combined movement has started under the initiative of Jayaprakash Narayan, the stalwart of Indian Politics. It was the left unity movement which aimed at the unification of all left group into a single platform. For J.P it was an intimate mission and vision but for the communists, it was a strategy. They like to use the popularity of the Socialist leaders but never like to be the part of the Socialist movement. They started the use and through policy in the Indian politics. Even though, they have remained as a splinter group in the state unit of the Indian National Congress with an aim t o usurp the party in a favorable situation.


In September 1939, the Second World War has broker out. Even then the Socialists has opposed the British colonialism. They demanded the POORNA SWARAJ the complete independence. This move has provoked the British Government. They have arrested all the top Socialist leaders and sent them to prison. It was the time what the Communists have been waiting for. In December1939 E.M.S. and other communist followers in the Socialist party announced an executive meeting of the Malabar Congress Socialist Party at Pinarayi near Thalissery. In the meeting E.M.S and other leaders have forwarded a resolution to merge the Socialist Party into the Communist Party. Majority of the executive members have joined hands with the Communist Party except four. They are, K.O.K.Nambiar, Vadavathi Krishnan Nair, Pinarayi Krishnan Nair, and K.N.Chathukkuty.


It was the second attempt of the Socialist Party in Kerala. It was also a failure or a bit of cheat. Though the Socialists have been weakened, the Communists have become a powerful political group in Kerala. Now the Communists forgot one fact that it is, the ommunist Party is a booty which was captured from the SOCIALISTS.
- Prasanth Mithran