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C. Krishnan Nair

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When the Delhi legislative assembly was abolished in 1956 as per recommendations of the State Reorganisation Commission (SRC), he joined other key personalities of Delhi in strongly criticising the SRC. As the SRC effectively suggested to reduce the autonomy of the national capital to the level of a
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Municipal Corporation, he expressed his disappointment thus: “But what we expected is a fair deal for Delhi just as every Part C State was added to Part A State, which means greater advantage and greater freedom for people of those areas. It is not so with regard to Delhi.”
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Lok Sabha. During his two terms as MP, he was instrumental in setting up the Delhi Development Authority, and was an active member of various working committees such as for the Delhi Municipal Corporation Bill of 1957 and the Delhi Master Plan 1962.
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Saini, Mahender Kumar; Andersen, Walter (1971). "The Congress Split in Delhi: The Effect of Factionalism on Organizational Performance and System Level Interactions".
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C.K.Nair Papers:- Diary of one of the 78 Satyagrahi participated in the historical march of Gandhiji from Sabarmati to Dandi in 1930 (in microfilm)
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The C.K. Nair Public School near Gandhi Ashram Road in Narela, Delhi is named after C. Krishnan Nair and was established in 1997.
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Consideration and passage of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Bill, 1957 by Parliament curing November-December, 1957 Session
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and as a clerk at the Lakshmi Insurance Company. During 1928 to 1930, he was a member of the Satyagraha Ashram at
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state) as the son of Shri Padmanathan. He received his elementary education at Neyyattinkara High School and
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During his active political life in Delhi, he mostly lived in the Gandhi Ashram and the Narela area.
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movement. Since 1943, he served as the Vice-President and Chief Public Relations Officer of the
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as he was the senior leader of DPCC. However, he refused and instead proposed the young leader
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of the First and Second Lok Sabha. He was popularly known as Delhi Gandhi or Nairji.
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After giving up his studies, he joined the Independence movement led by
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who rose to take up important roles both in the party and government.
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As a senior Congress leader, he also mentored juniors such as
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Indian National Congress
Gandhian
Salt March
Member of the Indian Parliament
Neyyattinkara
Kerala
Sri Moola Vilasam High School, Trivandrum
Mahatma Gandhi
Indraprastha Gurukul
Faridabad
Sabarmati
Wardha ashram
Quit India
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee
Delhi
Part C State
Jawaharlal Nehru
Chief Minister of Delhi
Chaudhary Brahm Prakash
independent India
Outer Delhi constituency
First
Second
Prem Singh




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