Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad (13 June 1909 â 19 March 1998), popularly known as EMS, was an Indian communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala state in 1957âÂÂ59 and then again in 1967âÂÂ69. As a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), he became the first non-Indian National Congress chief minister in the Indian republic. In 1964, he led a faction of the CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)).
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