AKG (A. K. Gopalan - Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan)

INDIAN COMMUNIST LEADER A.K.G
A.K.GOPALAN

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan (1 October 1904 – 22 March 1977), popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian Communist leader.

     In 1927 he joined the Indian National Congress and began playing an active role in the Khadi Movement and the upliftment of Harijans. He was arrested for participating in the salt Satyagraha in 1930.

   While in prison he got acquainted with communism and became a member of the Congress Socialist Party  and later the Communist Party of India when it finally took shape in Kerala in 1939. He led the hunger march from Malabar Region to Madras in 1937 and the Malabar Jatha in support of the movement for responsible government in Travancore.