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At the peak of his career in the 1980s and 1990s, he enjoyed considerable access, confidence and control at the All India Congress Committee (AICC), such that he had an important role in helping P. V. Narasimha Rao become Prime Minister of India.
Dec 23, 2020 · After a career of both achievements and setbacks in his 30s and most of his 40s, K. Karunakaran was allotted a ticket to contest from a Communist stronghold, Thrissur's Mala constituency, considered a “safe seat” for the Left, in the 1965 Kerala Legislative Assembly Elections.
Dec 23, 2010 · Karunakaran, who has proved for decades that Kerala politics can still be his playing field, has often been accused of turning senile in his later years but he was not ready to say goodbye to his political career spanning over seven decades.
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Dec 23, 2010 · He has been a Congress (I) father figure who built the party “from a group of nine MLAs in 1967” through two divisions in 1969 and 1978 to a strength of 57 in the 1991 Congress (I)-led UDF Ministry. The big break in his career came in 1967 with the party choosing him to lead the nine-member Congress bloc after the party was humbled by the LDF.
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May 16, 2012 · Karunakaran was the second politician in Kerala who demonstrated the power to turn crises into opportunities (the first was EMS). He first demonstrated it when he built up a trade union in...
Dec 31, 2020 · Karunakaran was instrumental in conceiving, initiating and implementing several infrastructure projects in Kerala―notably the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and the Cochin International Airport, the latter being India’s first public-private partnership airport―that most conventional politicians had considered unfeasible.
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Dec 23, 2010 · The big break in his career came in 1967 with the party choosing him to lead the nine-member Congress bloc after the party was humbled by the LDF.
