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₹20,000 crore COVID-19 revival package and steps to expedite coastal highway project are some of the key highlights of the first Budget presented by Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal in the Assembly on Friday, June 4, 2021.
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Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal presenting the revised Budget for 2021-22 in the Legislative Assembly in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, June 4, 2021.
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₹20,000 crore COVID-19 revival package and steps to expedite coastal highway project are some of the key highlights of the first Budget presented by Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal in the Assembly on Friday, June 4, 2021.
Kerala Finance Minister K. N. Balagopal presented his maiden budget at the Legislative Assembly on Friday. The revised budget is for the 2021-22 financial year.
Whether in the government or not, Gouri took on archaic social formations and called for reforms on many fronts. Her life demonstrated that female emancipation was not another domain for men to work, speak for and lead.
Legendary Communist Leader K.R. Gowri Amma Passes Away
Member of the CPI(M), K R Gowri Amma passed away at 102, leaving behind a rich political career.
K.R. Gowri Amma. Credit: Wikicommons
Politics11/May/2021
Thiruvananthapuram:Â Kerala’s veteran politician and member of the first Communist government headed by E.M.S. Namboodiripad in 1957, K.R. Gowri Amma died here on Tuesday.
She was 102 and had been admitted to a private hospital due to age-related ailments.
She breathed her last at 7 am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment in the ICU, hospital sources said.
Considered to be among the most powerful women leaders in Kerala, Gowri Amma, as she was fondly called, was the lone surviving member of the first Kerala legislative assembly.
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Considered to be among the most powerful women leaders in Kerala, Gowri Amma, as she was fondly called, was the lone surviving member of the first Kerala legislative assembly.
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Gowri, the tallest woman politician of the state who never minced words to put her thoughts across, was elected to the Travancore-Cochin legislative assembly in 1952 and 1954.
Legendary Marxist firebrand and former minister K R Gowri, one of the founding leaders of the Communist movement in Kerala and the lone woman member in the state s first cabinet, died at a private hospital here on Tuesday.
She was 102 and had been suffering from various age- related ailments for some time, party sources said.
Remembering Kerala s Iron Lady K R Gowri Amma, the lone woman in the state s first cabinet
She was 102 and had been suffering from various age-related ailments for some time, party sources said. 1 CLAP
K R Gowri, one of the founding leaders of the
Communist movement in Kerala and the lone woman member in the state s first cabinet, died at a private hospital on Tuesday.
She was 102 and had been suffering from various age-related ailments for some time, party sources said.
The chief of Janadhipathya Samrakshana Samithi (JSS), the veteran politician breathed her last at 7 am while undergoing treatment in the ICU, they said.