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{{Infobox Indian politician<br />
| name = Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|01|01|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = Adat, Ambalamkavu, [[Thrissur]] city, [[Kerala]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1981|08|31|1896|01|01}} <br />
| death_place = [[Thrissur]] city, [[Kerala]]<br />
| residence = Kurur Mana, Adat<br />
| office = <br />
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| constituency = [[Manaloor]]<br />
| party = [[Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee]], [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
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'''Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad''' was a [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]] and disciple of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. He took part in [[Quit India Movement]], [[Salt March]], [[Guruvayur Satyagraha]], [[Vaikom Satyagraha]] and [[Swadeshi movement]].<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m477.htm<br />
|title=Kuroor Neelakantan Namboodiripad <br />
|publisher=Niyamasabha<br />
|accessdate=2014-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.pressacademy.org/content/kurur-neelakandan-namboodiripad<br />
|title=KURUR NEELAKANDAN NAMBOODIRIPAD<br />
|publisher=Press Academy<br />
|accessdate=2014-08-20<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051131/http://www.pressacademy.org/content/kurur-neelakandan-namboodiripad<br />
|archive-date=21 August 2014<br />
|url-status=dead<br />
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/create-awareness-of-freedom-struggle-among-youth/article606968.ece<br />
|title=‘Create awareness of freedom struggle among youth'<br />
|publisher=The Hindu<br />
|accessdate=2014-08-20}}</ref><br />
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==Political life==<br />
Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad was born in Adat Kurur Mana in [[Thrissur District]] in 1896. He was one of the first few leaders in [[Kingdom of Cochin]] and in [[Thrissur District]] to form [[Indian National Congress]]. In 1920, he met [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in [[Kozhikode]] and asked for permission to join the [[Indian independence movement]]. When [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] and [[Indira Gandhi]] first came to [[Thrissur]], Kurur was the host. Indira Gandhi later on said that she and her father valued the opinions of Kurur.<br />
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He was the President of Thrissur District Congress Committee; Member of [[All India Congress Committee]] (1922–32) and Secretary, Kerala Khadi Board. Kurur was one of the founder directors of [[Mathrubhumi]] daily. Kurur was the early foot soldiers of [[Khādī]] in [[Kerala]]. On 15 August 1959 Kurur was attacked by a group when he was travelling in a car in Eravakkad. He was brutally beaten and was left to die in the road. But alert citizens found him and shifted to hospital. Kurur also lost his right ear in a lathicharge in [[Central Prison, Kannur]].<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://digitalpaper.mathrubhumi.com/321050/Thrissur/14-AUGUST-2014#page/25/2<br />
|title=Kurur Neelakandan Namboodiripad<br />
|publisher=Mathrubhumi<br />
|accessdate=2014-08-20}}</ref><br />
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==''Lokamanayan''==<br />
Namboodiripad with P. W. Sebastian started ''Lokamanayan'' newspaper in [[Thrissur]] city for creating more awerness for the [[Indian independence movement]]. Namboodiripad, was the Editor-in-Chief and Sebastian was the printer and publisher.<ref>{{cite web<br />
|url=http://www.pressacademy.org/content/kurur-neelakandan-namboodiripad<br />
|title=KURUR NEELAKANDAN NAMBOODIRIPAD<br />
|publisher=Press Academy<br />
|accessdate=2014-08-20<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821051131/http://www.pressacademy.org/content/kurur-neelakandan-namboodiripad<br />
|archive-date=21 August 2014<br />
|url-status=dead<br />
}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Indian civil rights activists]]<br />
[[Category:Indian prisoners and detainees]]<br />
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