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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = C. K. Chandrappan<br />
| image = CK_CHANDRAPPAN_DSC_0698.JPG<br />
| caption = C. K. Chandrappan<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|11|10|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Cherthala]], [[Alleppey]], [[Travancore]]<br />
| residence = [[Thiruvananthapuram]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2012|03|23|1935|11|10}}<br />
| death_place = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| office = Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India]] Kerala State Council<br />
| term_start = 14 November 2010<br />
| term_end = 22 March 2012<br />
| predecessor = [[Veliyam Bhargavan]]<br />
| successor = [[Pannyan Raveendran]]<br />
| constituency_MP1 = [[Thrissur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thrissur]]<br />
| majority1 = <br />
| parliament1 = Indian<br />
| term_start1 = 2004<br />
| term_end1 = 2009<br />
| predecessor1 = [[A. C. Jose]]<br />
| successor1 = [[P. C. Chacko]]<br />
| office2 = Member of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start2 = 2006<br />
| term_end2 = 3 May 2011<br />
| constituency2 = [[Cherthala (State Assembly constituency)|Cherthala]]<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Vayalar Ravi]]<br />
| successor2 = [[A. K. Antony]]<br />
| constituency_MP3 = [[Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kannur]]<br />
| majority3 = <br />
| parliament3 = Indian<br />
| term_start3 = 1977<br />
| term_end3 = 1980<br />
| predecessor3 = [[A.K. Gopalan]]<br />
| successor3 = K. Kunhambu<br />
| constituency_MP4 = [[Thalassery]]<br />
| majority4 = <br />
| parliament4 = Indian<br />
| term_start4 = 1971<br />
| term_end4 = 1977<br />
| predecessor4 = Constituency Established<br />
| successor4 = Constituency Demolished<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI)<br />
| religion = <br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
| parents = C. K. Kumara Panicker, Ammukutty Amma<br />
| website = <br />
| footnotes = <br />
| native_name = <br />
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{{Given name hatnote|Chandrappan|Cheerapanchira Kuntirishery|lang=Malayali}}'''Cheerapanchira Kuntirishery Chandrappan''' (10 November 1935 – 22 March 2012) was a politician from [[Kerala]], [[India]]. He was associated with [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2362643.ece|title=The Hindu : States / Kerala : Hazare's detention denial of right to dissent: Chandrappan|date=16 August 2011|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=23 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908053022/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2362643.ece|archive-date=8 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] of [[India]] representing the [[Thalassery (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thalassery]] from 1971 to 1977, [[Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kannur]] from 1977 to 1980 and [[Thrissur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thrissur]] from 2004 to 2009. Chandrappan served as [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] from 1991 to 1996 representing [[Cherthala (State Assembly constituency)|Chertala]], [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
C. K. Chandrappan was born in [[Alleppey]], to Ammukutty and politician C. K. Kumara Panicker of the Kuntirishery family, a [[Vayalar]] tributary of the wealthy [[Cheerappanchira]] family in [[Muhamma|Muhamma, Alappuzha]]. Kumara Panicker was one of the frontline fighters in the legendary [[Punnapra-Vayalar uprising]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-07-30 |title=The Hindu : States / Kerala : C. K. Chandrappan dead |newspaper=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece |access-date=2024-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730032014/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece |archive-date=30 July 2012 }}</ref><br />
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==Early political career==<br />
Chandrappan started his political life when he was a member of leftist youth federations in the 1970s. He took part in the [[Goa liberation movement]] and was jailed as a political prisoner on various occasions in Delhi, Calcutta and Trivandrum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newageweekly.in/2012/03/comrade-c-k-chandrappan-is-no-more_24.html?m=1 |title = NEW AGE WEEKLY: Comrade C. K. Chandrappan is No More}}</ref><br />
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==Right to recall proposed bills for MP and MLA==<br />
Constitution (Amendment) Bill about Voter's right to recall elected representatives was introduced in [[Lok Sabha]] by [[C. K. Chandrappan]] in 1974 and [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] had supported this but the bill did not pass.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=87k_AAAAMAAJ&q=Right+to+Recall&pg=RA11-PA1910|title=Vajpayee, Atal Bihari (5 September 1996). "State of the Nation". Shipra Publications – via Google Books.|isbn=9788185402703|last1=Vajpayee|first1=Atal Bihari|year=1996|publisher=Shipra Publications }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/anna-hazares-call-on-right-to-reject-and-right-to-recall-rekindled-debate-over-electoral-concepts/articleshow/9775883.cms|title= Social activist Anna Hazare during his protests had been campaigning for Right to Recall and right to Reject.|newspaper= The Economic Times}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life and death==<br />
He married Bulu Roy Chowdhury in 1978.<ref>[https://englisharchives.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/english-news-1.875960 "Bulu Roy Choudhary passes away"]. ''Mathrubhumi''. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2024.</ref> C. K. Chandrappan died in [[Thiruvananthapuram]] on 22 March 2012 at the age of 76, due to cancer.<ref><br />
{{cite news|title=C. K. Chandrappan dead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece|access-date=22 March 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730032014/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece|archive-date=30 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140116131841/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/lokaralpha.aspx?lsno=14 Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website]<br />
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