The Indian Socialist Party was a political party in the Indian state of Kerala.[1] ISP was founded in May 1969, by the majority of the erstwhile Kerala Samyukta Socialist Party (a splinter group of the Samyukta Socialist Party).[2] The two KSSP ministers in the state government, P.K. Kunju and P.R. Kurup, became members of ISP.[3] The ISP declared that it sought to become an All India party in six months.[4]
ISP had two ministers in the C. Achutha Menon cabinet formed in October 1969, O. Koran and N.K. Seshan.[5][6]
References
- ↑ Party System And Political Parties In India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Deep & Deep Publications(1989). ISBN 978-81-7100-120-0
- ↑ Communism in Kerala: A Study in Political Adaptation{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. University of California Press(1 January 1982). ISBN 978-0-520-04667-2
- ↑ Coalition Politics: The Indian Experience{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Concept Publishing Company(1 January 2004). ISBN 978-81-8069-092-1
- ↑ Himmat, Vol. 5{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1969)
- ↑ Yearbook on international communist affairs{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Hoover Institution Press(1971)
- ↑ Communist parties and United Front experience in Kerala and West Bengal{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Prajasakti Book House(2003). ISBN 978-81-86317-37-2