K. B. Menon (Aged 70) born on 18 June 1897, Thaliparamba, Malabar district, Kerala, India. He was an Indian politician and independence activist from Kerala, represented Badagara in the Lok Sabha between 1957 and 1962. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Colorado and joined the University of Harvard as a professor, where he met Jayaprakash Narayan, who was in the US for higher studies. This friendship led Menon to a new path.
Menon left his job and returned to India, assuming the office of general secretary of the All India Civil Liberties Union founded by Jawaharlal Nehru. The aim of the union was to aid people suffering from torture for their participation in the national movement.
Menon became a resident of the Gandhi ashram when the office of the citizens’ forum of the princely states was moved to Wardha in 1941 and developed a friendship with Mahatma Gandhi. Menon returned to Kerala as part of the Quit India Movement, which intensified the strength of the movement in Malabar district and Cochin. He was the main man behind the famous Keezhariyur bomb conspiracy case, which attracted media attention from the entire country.
He was the first accused and sentenced to ten years of rigorous imprisonment. He was released after five years following independence, but his health had deteriorated during his time in jail. Menon was a strict follower and proponent of Gandhism as well as socialism. He left the Congress when the socialists departed. Nehru, a close friend and admirer of his, wanted Menon by his side, but Menon asked to join the socialists instead. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1952 from the Thrithala constituency as a socialist candidate. He passed away by 6 September 1967, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
K. B. Menon
(1897 – 1967) – (Kerala)
K. B. Menon (Aged 70) born on 18 June 1897, Thaliparamba, Malabar district, Kerala, India. He was an Indian politician and independence activist from Kerala, represented Badagara in the Lok Sabha between 1957 and 1962. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Colorado and joined the University of Harvard as a professor, where he met Jayaprakash Narayan, who was in the US for higher studies. This friendship led Menon to a new path.
Menon left his job and returned to India, assuming the office of general secretary of the All India Civil Liberties Union founded by Jawaharlal Nehru. The aim of the union was to aid people suffering from torture for their participation in the national movement.
Menon became a resident of the Gandhi ashram when the office of the citizens’ forum of the princely states was moved to Wardha in 1941 and developed a friendship with Mahatma Gandhi. Menon returned to Kerala as part of the Quit India Movement, which intensified the strength of the movement in Malabar district and Cochin. He was the main man behind the famous Keezhariyur bomb conspiracy case, which attracted media attention from the entire country.
He was the first accused and sentenced to ten years of rigorous imprisonment. He was released after five years following independence, but his health had deteriorated during his time in jail. Menon was a strict follower and proponent of Gandhism as well as socialism. He left the Congress when the socialists departed. Nehru, a close friend and admirer of his, wanted Menon by his side, but Menon asked to join the socialists instead. He was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1952 from the Thrithala constituency as a socialist candidate. He passed away by 6 September 1967, Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
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