R. C. Unnithan

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Template:New unreviewed article Template:EngvarB Template:Infobox person Ramachandran Unnithan (Template:Lang-ml; born 21 January 1936),popularly known as R.C.Unnithan (Template:Lang-ml) or simply R.C (Template:Lang-ml), was a renowned Malayalam political activist and trade union leader and one of the founder leaders of Communist Party of India(Marxist) in the southern districts and eastern plantations of Kerala, India. He had contested on CPI(M) party tickets for the state legislative election in 1965 from Adoor constituency and from the nearby Konni constituency in 1970 and 1977 [1]. He was a political prisoner at the state prison along with several leading opposition leaders who were imprisoned in Kerala and all across India during the Emergency regime when fundamental democratic rights were curtailed for twenty-one months between 1975 and 1977. He has published several books and articles. Notable among them is a personal/political diary penned during his imprisonment during emergency years - [2]

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  1. [1] Assembly Election in Kerala
  2. [2] My_Jail_Diary_while_being_a_political_prisoner_during_India's_Emergency