Kerala Legislative Assembly | One-liners for PSC

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Key Takeaway

The Kerala Legislative Assembly, aka Kerala Niyamasabha, is made up of 140 representatives of 140 constituencies of Kerala.

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Total No. of Members– 140

The Kerala Legislative Assembly, aka Kerala Niyamasabha, is made up of 140 representatives of 140 constituencies of Kerala. Each elected member from these constituencies is known as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

The article below shows a brief history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. Many of these one-liners are often asked in various PSC exams.

Kerala Legislative Assembly for PSC(98)

Item	Detail
Chairman of the assembly	Speaker*
Leader of the Assembly	Chief Minister of the State
Early Legislative Assemblies of Kerala	TravancoreKerala Legislative Assembly(1888)First Native Legislature in the British India –Travancore Legislative Council(1888)Sree Moolam Praja Sabha(October 1, 1904)
Kerala State Formation	November 1, 1956
First General Election	February 28 - March 11, 1957
First Kerala Legislative Assembly	April 5, 1957
Total No. of Members	127 +1(nominated Anglo-Indian)
Total No. of Women Members	6.No. of Ministers–11.No. of Woman Ministers–1
First Kerala Ministrywas led by	E.M.S Namboothirippad
First session of first (1959) Kerala Legislative Assembly	72 days
First Kerala Ministry was dismissed on	July 31, 1959
Current Kerala Legislative Assembly	15th
Total no. of members	140
First by-election in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly	Devikulam
Hung Parliament happened in Kerala in the year	1965
The Assembly which had the shortest term	the6th Kerala Assembly(1980-1982)
The Assembly which had the longest period	the4th Kerala Assembly(C. Achuthamenon Ministry 1970-77)
Golden Jubilee year of Kerala Assembly	April 2006
Silver Jubilee year	1982
Thefoundation stone for the new Niyamasabha Building was laid by	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy(1979)
The newNiyamasabha Building was inaugurated by	K. R. Narayanan(May 22,1998)
First State in India to introduce ballot paper	Kerala(Devikulam by-election of 1957)
Electronic Voting Machine was used for the first time in India is in Kerala in	Paravur(By-election 1982)
Electronic Voting Machine was used for all the 140 constituencies on	May 10, 2001
President of India who addressed a state assembly for the first in Indian history	K.R. Narayanan(Kerala Legislative Assembly, September 18, 1997)*
First Prime Minister who addressed Kerala Legislative Assembly	Jawaharlal Nehru*
First State Legislature to launch a private Television Channelto telecast assembly proceedings	Kerala Legislative Assembly(Sabha TV)
Name the Governor gave the shortest policy address in the history of the Kerala Assembly	Arif Mohammed Khan(1.8 minutes)*
Speakers of KeralaFirst Speaker of Kerala	R. Sanakaranarayanan Thampi*
First pro-tem Speaker of the Kerala Assembly	Rosamma Punnouse*
First member of the Legislative Assembly	Rosamma Punnouse
First Speaker who completed the term of five years	M. Vijayakumar
Speaker who had the longest tenure	M. Vijayakumar
First Woman to become deputy speaker	K.O. Aiysha Bai(1957)*
Head of Secretariat	Legislative Secretary
First Chief Secretary of Kerala	NES Raghavanachari(1956)*
First Woman Chief Secretary of Kerala	Padma Ramachandran(1990)*
Read More:Speakers of KeralaMember of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)First Woman to become anominatedmember of any Legislature in India	Mary Poonen Lukose(Travancore Legislative Assembly, 1922)
First Woman to become anelectedmember of a Legislative Assembly in India	Thottakkattu Madhavi Amma(Cochin Kerala Legislative Assembly, 1925)
First member to issue a notice for a no-confidence motion in Kerala Legislative Assembly	C.G. Janardhanan(2nd Assembly, 1961)
First Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in office	Dr. A.R. Menon(Cochin State, 1942)
First Communist to be elected to a Legislative Assembly	K. Ananthan Nambiyar(Madras Legislative Assembly, 1946)
First MLA who took oathinto theKerala Legislative Assembly	Rosamma Punnouse
First elected MLA who took oath outside the Kerala Assembly	Mathai Chacko(12th Assembly; May 29, 2006)
Speaker at the time	K. Radhakrishnan.He was having treatment for leukemia at the time, and the swearing-in ceremony took place at the Lake Shore Hospital.AnMLA who, although being sworn in, was unable to attend a single session of the Assembly–Mathai Chacko(passed away on October 13, 2006)
Longest served Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly	Oommen Chandy (18278 days)
Previous record holder for Longest served Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly	K.M. Mani(15544 days)
Longest Served Woman MLA	K.R. Gowri
Shortest Served MLA	C. Haridas(10 days in February 1980)
First Person to become part of most no. Kerala assemblies	K.R. Gowri(12 times)
First Person(MLA)to be disqualified through a court order	Rosamma Punnose
First Dalit Woman MLA in the pre-independent Kerala	Dakshayani Velayudhan(Cochin Legislative Council, 1945)
Oldest member in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly	C. Achuthanandan(87 years old in 2011)
Youngest member in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly	R. Balakrishnan Pillai(25 years, 1960)
The Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly who got the highest margin of votes	K.K. Shailaja(60,963 votes, Mattannur constituency, 2021)*
The Member who got the lowest margin of votes	A. A. Aziz(against Muslim League's TA Ahmed Kabir, 5 votes, 2001)
The (only) member who has been elected to the Assembly unopposed	M. Umesh Rao(Manjeswaram, 1957)
First IAS officer to become a member in Kerala Legislative Assembly	Alphons Kannanthanam(2006)
The first person to be disqualified from the Kerala Legislative Assembly as a result of the Anti-Defection Law	R. Balakrishna Pillai(by speaker Varkala Radhakrishnan, 1989)
Highest number of women MLAs	13(Third E.K. Nayanar Ministry, 1996)
First Anglo-Indian Nominee	William Hamilton D'Cruz(1957)
The Anglo-Indian Member who served for the longest period	Stephen Padua
Last Anglo-Indian Nominee	John Fernandez(2016)**Ministers of KeralaFirst Woman Minister–K.R. Gowri
Longest-serving woman minister	K.R. Gowri
The architect of the Kerala Education Bill	Joseph Mundassery
Longest term as Minister	K.M. Mani
The longest consecutive serving minister in Kerala	A. K. Saseendran
Shortest term as Minister	M.P. Veerendrakumar(5 days, April 1987)
First minister who hold the office, defeated in a by-election	K. Muraleedharan(Wadakkancherry, 2004)
First person who is a minister without becoming MLA or facing the legislature	K. Muraleedran(A. K. Antony Ministry of 2004)
First Actor to become a minister in Kerala Legislative Assembly	K.B. Ganesh Kumar(Minister of Transport, 2001-03)
First Malayali Minister who later became Kerala High Court Judge and Supreme Court Judge	V.R. Krishna Iyer(1968 & 1973)
Youngest Minister in Kerala Legislative Assembly	Ramesh Chennithala(28 years old, 1986)
First minister of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in office	V.K. Velappan(1962)
BudgetThe first budget of Kerala was presented by	C. Achutha Menon(Finance Minister, 7 June 1957)
First CM who presented Budget	R
Sankar.CM's who presented Budget in the Kerala Legislative Assembly	R Sankar, C. Achutha Menon, E.K. Nayanar & Oommen Chandy
The most number of budgets in the Kerala Legislative Assembly was presented by	K.M. Mani(13 times)
Longest Budget Speech	Dr. Thomas Isaac(3 hrs 17 min, January 15, 2021)*
Second Longest Budget Speech	Oommen Chandy(2 hrs 54 min, 2016)
Shortest Budget Speech	E. K. Nayanar(then CM, 6 minutes, March 28, 1987)
Chief Ministers of KeralaCM to face maximum no. of no-confidence motions	K. Karunakaran.CM during the emergency –C. Achutha Menon*
During theFifthKerala Legislative Assembly's tenure, four chief ministers and four ministrieswere elected.K. Karunakaran	March 25, 1977(resigned due to Rajan murder case).A.K. Antony–April 25, 1977.P.K. Vasudevan Nair–October29,1978.C.H. Mohammed Koya–October12,1979*
ParliamentLongest served MP(Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha)	B.V. Abdulla Koya(5 terms)
First Malayali Chairman of Rajya Sabha	K.R. Narayanan(1992)*
First Malayali Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha	M.M. Jacob(1986)*
Second Malayali Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha	P.J. Kurien(2012)*
First Malayali Poet nominated to the Rajya Sabha	G. Sankara Kurup(1968)
First Malayalam Actor nominated to the Rajya Sabha	Suresh Gopi(2016)
First Malayalam Actor elected to the Lok Sabha	Innocent Vareed Thekkethala(2014)
First Central Cabinet Minister from Kerala	Dr. John Mathai(Finance, 1947- 50)
First Central Cabinet Defence Minister from Kerala	V.K. Krishna Menon(1957-62)
Second Central Cabinet Minister from Kerala	V.K. Krishna Menon
Second Defence Minister from Kerala	A.K. Anthony(2006-14).6th Kerala Chief Minister
First Woman Central Minister from Kerala	Lakshmi N. Menon(1962)
First Malayali to become Cabinet Minister for Electronics and Information Technology	Alphons Kannanthanam(Rajasthan, 2017)
First Malayali to contest in Presidential Election	Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer(against R. Venkataraman, 1987, lost by 458598 votes)
First Person to become a member of Kerala legislative assembly through a court order	Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer

Chairman of the assembly*

Speaker

Leader of the Assembly

Chief Minister of the State

Early Legislative Assemblies of Kerala

TravancoreKerala Legislative Assembly(1888)First Native Legislature in the British India –Travancore Legislative Council(1888)Sree Moolam Praja Sabha(October 1, 1904)

Kerala State Formation

November 1, 1956

First General Election

February 28 - March 11, 1957

First Kerala Legislative Assembly

April 5, 1957

Total No. of Members

127 +1(nominated Anglo-Indian)

Total No. of Women Members

6.No. of Ministers–11.No. of Woman Ministers–1

First Kerala Ministrywas led by

E.M.S Namboothirippad

First session of first (1959) Kerala Legislative Assembly

72 days

First Kerala Ministry was dismissed on

July 31, 1959

Current Kerala Legislative Assembly

15th

Total no. of members

140

First by-election in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

Devikulam

Hung Parliament happened in Kerala in the year

1965

The Assembly which had the shortest term

the6th Kerala Assembly(1980-1982)

The Assembly which had the longest period

the4th Kerala Assembly(C. Achuthamenon Ministry 1970-77)

Golden Jubilee year of Kerala Assembly

April 2006

Silver Jubilee year

1982

Thefoundation stone for the new Niyamasabha Building was laid by

Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy(1979)

The newNiyamasabha Building was inaugurated by

K. R. Narayanan(May 22,1998)

First State in India to introduce ballot paper

Kerala(Devikulam by-election of 1957)

Electronic Voting Machine was used for the first time in India is in Kerala in

Paravur(By-election 1982)

Electronic Voting Machine was used for all the 140 constituencies on

May 10, 2001

President of India who addressed a state assembly for the first in Indian history*

K.R. Narayanan(Kerala Legislative Assembly, September 18, 1997)

First Prime Minister who addressed Kerala Legislative Assembly*

Jawaharlal Nehru

First State Legislature to launch a private Television Channelto telecast assembly proceedings

Kerala Legislative Assembly(Sabha TV)

Name the Governor gave the shortest policy address in the history of the Kerala Assembly*

Arif Mohammed Khan(1.8 minutes)

Speakers of KeralaFirst Speaker of Kerala*

R. Sanakaranarayanan Thampi

First pro-tem Speaker of the Kerala Assembly*

Rosamma Punnouse

First member of the Legislative Assembly

Rosamma Punnouse

First Speaker who completed the term of five years

M. Vijayakumar

Speaker who had the longest tenure

M. Vijayakumar

First Woman to become deputy speaker*

K.O. Aiysha Bai(1957)

Head of Secretariat

Legislative Secretary

First Chief Secretary of Kerala*

NES Raghavanachari(1956)

First Woman Chief Secretary of Kerala*

Padma Ramachandran(1990)

Read More:Speakers of KeralaMember of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)First Woman to become anominatedmember of any Legislature in India

Mary Poonen Lukose(Travancore Legislative Assembly, 1922)

First Woman to become anelectedmember of a Legislative Assembly in India

Thottakkattu Madhavi Amma(Cochin Kerala Legislative Assembly, 1925)

First member to issue a notice for a no-confidence motion in Kerala Legislative Assembly

C.G. Janardhanan(2nd Assembly, 1961)

First Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in office

Dr. A.R. Menon(Cochin State, 1942)

First Communist to be elected to a Legislative Assembly

K. Ananthan Nambiyar(Madras Legislative Assembly, 1946)

First MLA who took oathinto theKerala Legislative Assembly

Rosamma Punnouse

First elected MLA who took oath outside the Kerala Assembly

Mathai Chacko(12th Assembly; May 29, 2006)

Speaker at the time

K. Radhakrishnan.He was having treatment for leukemia at the time, and the swearing-in ceremony took place at the Lake Shore Hospital.AnMLA who, although being sworn in, was unable to attend a single session of the Assembly–Mathai Chacko(passed away on October 13, 2006)

Longest served Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

Oommen Chandy (18278 days)

Previous record holder for Longest served Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

K.M. Mani(15544 days)

Longest Served Woman MLA

K.R. Gowri

Shortest Served MLA

C. Haridas(10 days in February 1980)

First Person to become part of most no. Kerala assemblies

K.R. Gowri(12 times)

First Person(MLA)to be disqualified through a court order

Rosamma Punnose

First Dalit Woman MLA in the pre-independent Kerala

Dakshayani Velayudhan(Cochin Legislative Council, 1945)

Oldest member in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

C. Achuthanandan(87 years old in 2011)

Youngest member in the history of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

R. Balakrishnan Pillai(25 years, 1960)

The Member of Kerala Legislative Assembly who got the highest margin of votes*

K.K. Shailaja(60,963 votes, Mattannur constituency, 2021)

The Member who got the lowest margin of votes

A. A. Aziz(against Muslim League's TA Ahmed Kabir, 5 votes, 2001)

The (only) member who has been elected to the Assembly unopposed

M. Umesh Rao(Manjeswaram, 1957)

First IAS officer to become a member in Kerala Legislative Assembly

Alphons Kannanthanam(2006)

The first person to be disqualified from the Kerala Legislative Assembly as a result of the Anti-Defection Law

R. Balakrishna Pillai(by speaker Varkala Radhakrishnan, 1989)

Highest number of women MLAs

13(Third E.K. Nayanar Ministry, 1996)

First Anglo-Indian Nominee

William Hamilton D'Cruz(1957)

The Anglo-Indian Member who served for the longest period

Stephen Padua

Last Anglo-Indian Nominee

John Fernandez(2016)**Ministers of KeralaFirst Woman Minister–K.R. Gowri

Longest-serving woman minister

K.R. Gowri

The architect of the Kerala Education Bill

Joseph Mundassery

Longest term as Minister

K.M. Mani

The longest consecutive serving minister in Kerala

A. K. Saseendran

Shortest term as Minister

M.P. Veerendrakumar(5 days, April 1987)

First minister who hold the office, defeated in a by-election

K. Muraleedharan(Wadakkancherry, 2004)

First person who is a minister without becoming MLA or facing the legislature

K. Muraleedran(A. K. Antony Ministry of 2004)

First Actor to become a minister in Kerala Legislative Assembly

K.B. Ganesh Kumar(Minister of Transport, 2001-03)

First Malayali Minister who later became Kerala High Court Judge and Supreme Court Judge

V.R. Krishna Iyer(1968 & 1973)

Youngest Minister in Kerala Legislative Assembly

Ramesh Chennithala(28 years old, 1986)

First minister of Kerala Legislative Assembly to die in office

V.K. Velappan(1962)

BudgetThe first budget of Kerala was presented by

C. Achutha Menon(Finance Minister, 7 June 1957)

First CM who presented Budget

Sankar.CM's who presented Budget in the Kerala Legislative Assembly

R Sankar, C. Achutha Menon, E.K. Nayanar & Oommen Chandy

The most number of budgets in the Kerala Legislative Assembly was presented by

K.M. Mani(13 times)

Longest Budget Speech*

Dr. Thomas Isaac(3 hrs 17 min, January 15, 2021)

Second Longest Budget Speech

Oommen Chandy(2 hrs 54 min, 2016)

Shortest Budget Speech

E. K. Nayanar(then CM, 6 minutes, March 28, 1987)

Chief Ministers of KeralaCM to face maximum no. of no-confidence motions*

K. Karunakaran.CM during the emergency –C. Achutha Menon

During theFifthKerala Legislative Assembly's tenure, four chief ministers and four ministrieswere elected.K. Karunakaran*

March 25, 1977(resigned due to Rajan murder case).A.K. Antony–April 25, 1977.P.K. Vasudevan Nair–October29,1978.C.H. Mohammed Koya–October12,1979

ParliamentLongest served MP(Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha)

B.V. Abdulla Koya(5 terms)

First Malayali Chairman of Rajya Sabha*

K.R. Narayanan(1992)

First Malayali Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha*

M.M. Jacob(1986)

Second Malayali Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha*

P.J. Kurien(2012)

First Malayali Poet nominated to the Rajya Sabha

G. Sankara Kurup(1968)

First Malayalam Actor nominated to the Rajya Sabha

Suresh Gopi(2016)

First Malayalam Actor elected to the Lok Sabha

Innocent Vareed Thekkethala(2014)

First Central Cabinet Minister from Kerala

Dr. John Mathai(Finance, 1947- 50)

First Central Cabinet Defence Minister from Kerala

V.K. Krishna Menon(1957-62)

Second Central Cabinet Minister from Kerala

V.K. Krishna Menon

Second Defence Minister from Kerala

A.K. Anthony(2006-14).6th Kerala Chief Minister

First Woman Central Minister from Kerala

Lakshmi N. Menon(1962)

First Malayali to become Cabinet Minister for Electronics and Information Technology

Alphons Kannanthanam(Rajasthan, 2017)

First Malayali to contest in Presidential Election

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer(against R. Venkataraman, 1987, lost by 458598 votes)

First Person to become a member of Kerala legislative assembly through a court order

Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer

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- First Kerala Niyamasabha

- First Woman in Kerala – Administration.

📝SideNotes(5)

Item	Detail
*Hung Parliament	Where no party or a coalition was able to form the legislature as it did not have a clear majority in the general elections were held
Political Laboratory of India	Kerala
Party of Kerala's Second Chief Minister, Pattom Thanu Pillai	Praja Socialist Party (PSP)*
First Lawyer from the Ezhava community	K.R. Gowri.**With the passing of the126th constitution amendment actin Parliament in December 2019, the Anglo-Indian reservation to assembly and Lok Sabha was repealed
Autobiography ofR. Balakrishna Pillai	Prisoner 5990

*Hung Parliament

Where no party or a coalition was able to form the legislature as it did not have a clear majority in the general elections were held

Political Laboratory of India

Kerala

Party of Kerala's Second Chief Minister, Pattom Thanu Pillai*

Praja Socialist Party (PSP)

First Lawyer from the Ezhava community

K.R. Gowri.**With the passing of the126th constitution amendment actin Parliament in December 2019, the Anglo-Indian reservation to assembly and Lok Sabha was repealed

Autobiography ofR. Balakrishna Pillai

Prisoner 5990

* Time-sensitive data — verify for latest information

Kerala Legislative Assembly | One-liners for PSC

Key Takeaway

Total No. of Members– 140

Kerala Legislative Assembly for PSC(98)

- First Kerala Niyamasabha

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