Ambaddi

Vadakkoot Viswanatha Menon, known among friends as Ambadi Viswam, was a firebrand political activist in his youth, one of the accused in the Communist attack on the Edappally police station. He was a leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Kerala. The 1970 congress of CPI(ML) elected Ambaddi to the party central committee. However, just two months after the congress Ambaddi left CPI(ML) and joined the Indian National Congress. A FACT union president for 12 years, and Indal union president for 14 years, Ambadi Viswam had also been the leader of a Cochin Port union.

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* [http://www.hindu.com/2003/09/03/stories/2003090309430400.htm "The Hindu" on-line, September 3, 2003]