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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = A. C. Shanmughadas <br />
| image =<br />
| office1 = [[Third Nayanar ministry|Minister for Health and Sports]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| term_start1 = May 1996<br />
| term_end1 = January 2000<br />
| predecessor1 = [[V.M. Sudheeran]]<br />
| successor1 = [[V.C Kabeer]]<br />
| office2 = [[Second Nayanar ministry|Minister for Health]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| term_start2 = April 1987<br />
| term_end2 = June 1991<br />
| predecessor2 = [[R. Ramachandran Nair]]<br />
| successor2 = K.P. Ramachandran Nair<br />
| office3 = [[First Nayanar ministry|Minister for Community Development and Sports]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| term_start3 = January 1980<br />
| term_end3 = October 1981<br />
| predecessor3 = President's Rule<br />
| successor3 = [[K. Karunakaran]]<br />
| office4 = [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start4 =1980<br />
| term_end4 =2006 <br />
| constituency4 = [[Balussery (State Assembly constituency)|Balussery]] <br />
| predecessor4 = P. K. Sankarankutty<br />
| successor4 = [[A. K. Saseendran]]<br />
| term_start5 =1970<br />
| term_end5 =1977 <br />
| constituency5 = [[Balussery]] <br />
| predecessor5 = AK Appu<br />
| successor5 = P. K. Sankarankutty<br />
}}<br />
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'''A. C. Shanmughadas''' (5 January 1939 – 27 June 2013) was an [[India]]n politician. He was [[Kerala]] MLA for [[Balussery]] from 1970 until 2006.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Aniyeri Cheenan Shanmughadas was born on 5 January 1939 in [[Dharmadom]] near [[Thalassery]], [[Kannur district]], as the son of Cheenan Kunjiraman and Aniyeri Vengilatt Saradamma.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} After completing school education, he started college education in Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala College.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} Like most of the politicians in India, he also started his political career through campus politics.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} He was one of the founding members of [[Kerala Students Union]] (KSU). After completing his college education, he became an active politician. He also participated in the Goa Liberation Struggle in 1961.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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==Political life==<br />
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Shanmughadas was first elected from [[Balussery]] constituency in 1970. He later went to get elected for seven times consecutively from the same constituency - from 1980 to 2006. He served as minister thrice - all in the governments headed by [[E. K. Nayanar]].{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} In the first Nayanar ministry which came in 1980, he was the minister for Health, Employment & Sports. He resigned his post on 16 October 1981, when his party, along with [[Kerala Congress (M)]] and [[Kerala Congress (B)]], withdrew the support for the ministry, which resulted in the fall of Nayanar ministry.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} In the second and third Nayanar ministries, which came in 1987 and 1991 respectively, he got the same portfolios as in the first ministry (with the exception of employment). From 1982 to 1999, he was the legislative leader of the party.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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Shanmughadas served as the State Secretary of K.S.U. and [[Indian Youth Congress]] during 1966-69 period, with [[A. K. Antony]] as the President. He briefly served as the secretary of [[Malappuram district]] Congress Committee, and later served as the President of [[Kozhikode district|Kozhikode]] from 1973 to 1978.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} When Congress party was split in 1978, he joined the faction led by [[D. Devaraj Urs]], called [[Indian Congress (Socialist)]] a.k.a. Congress (S). He later stood firmly with [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|Left Democratic Front]] until his death.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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When Congress (S) was split in 1986, he joined the faction headed by [[Sarat Chandra Sinha]].{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} It was this faction which led to the formation of [[Nationalist Congress Party]] (NCP) headed by [[Sharad Pawar]] in 1999. When this party was formed, a rift occurred, and Shanmughadas, then the state cabinet minister of Kerala, resigned his post. His colleague [[V. C. Kabeer]], then the member from [[Ottapalam]] legislative constituency, and the member of a faction which continued to be known as Congress (S), succeeded him.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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Shanmughadas was also the Chairman of KANFED and a member of Kerala Granthasala Sangham and Kozhikode Regional Transport Authority. He also served as the editor of various weeklies like 'Dharmachakra', 'Yuvatha' and 'Nireekshanam' weeklies. During his last days, he worked as the state President of NCP.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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==Death==<br />
Shanmughadas died of a [[cardiac arrest]] on 27 June 2013 at the age of 74.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130629100621/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-28/kozhikode/40254980_1_former-minister-health-minister-faction Former minister Shanmughadas passes away]</ref> He was not keeping good health for a while, due to various problems like [[diabetes]], [[hypertension]] and high [[cholestrol]]. He also suffered from [[cirrhosis]] and [[heart disease]]. On the day of his death, he conducted a memorial programme in memory of his political mentor C. K. Govindan Nair, whose death anniversary fell on that day, and collapsed while speaking. He was immediately rushed to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:15 PM. Shanmughadas was cremated with full state honours at his home premises the next day. He is survived by his wife K. Parukutty and two daughters.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}<br />
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[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1980–1982]]<br />
[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1982–1987]]<br />
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[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1991–1996]]<br />
[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1996–2001]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress (U) politicians]]<br />
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