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{{short description|Cabinet of Kerala, India, from 1960 to 1962}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox government cabinet
|cabinet_name = Pattam Thanu Pillai Ministry
|cabinet_number = 2nd
|jurisdiction = Kerala
|incumbent = 22 Feb 1960 – 26 Sep 1962
|image =
|image_size =
|date_formed = 22 February 1960
|date_dissolved = 26 September 1962
|government_head = [[Pattam A. Thanu Pillai]]
|government_head_history =
|deputy_government_head =
|state_head =
|current_number =
|former_members_number =
|total_number =
|political_party = [[Praja Socialist Party]]
|election = [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]
|opposition_party = [[Communist Party of India]]
|opposition_leader =
|previous = [[First E. M. S. Namboodiripad ministry|First EMS Ministry]]
|successor = [[R. Sankar Ministry]]
}}

The '''Pattom A. Thanu Pillai''' ministry was a Kerala government ministry formed on 22 February 1960 and lasted till 26 September 1962.

== Background ==

After [[E. M. S. Namboodiripad|E M S Namboothiripad]] Government was dismissed, Kerala was under President rule. Elections were held to the legislative assembly on 1 February 1960.<ref name="KeralaLegislature">{{cite web | url=http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3776:history-of-kerala-legislature | title=History of Kerala Legislature | publisher=Kerala Government | accessdate=30 July 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101549/http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3776%3Ahistory-of-kerala-legislature | archivedate=6 October 2014}}</ref>

[[Indian National Congress]] became the largest party with 63 seats in the assembly after the elections. Communists became the second largest party 26 seats and Praja Socialist Party (PSP) got 20 seats. Congress and PSP formed a coalition government, with [[Pattom Thanu Pillai|Pattom A Thanu Pillai]] of PSP as the Chief Minister, and [[R. Sankar|R Sankar]] from Congress as the Deputy Chief Minister. Even though PSP was a junior partner in the coalition, Pattam was chosen as the Chief Minister because the congress leader R Sankar was from Ezhava caste which the [[Nair Service Society]], the main supporters of Congress, disapproved of. Pattam previously held the posts of Prime Minister in the erstwhile Travancore state, and later the Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin state.

Pattam resigned on 26 September 1962 when he was posted as the [[List of governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]]. This paved the way for the first Congress chief minister in Kerala under [[R. Sankar]].

== Council of Ministers ==

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! !!Minister!!Ministry/Portfolio
!Party
|-
|1||[[Pattam A. Thanu Pillai]]||[[Chief Minister (India)|Chief Minister]]
|[[Praja Socialist Party]]
|-
|2||[[R. Sankar]]|| Deputy Chief Minister
Minister for Finance
| rowspan="8" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|3||[[P. T. Chacko]]||Minister for Home Affairs
|-
|4||K. A. Damodara Menon||Minister for Industries
|-
|5||[[P. P. Ummer Koya]]||[[Department of Education]]
|-
|6||[[K.T. Achuthan|K. T. Achuthan]]||Minister for Transport & Labour
|-
|7||E. P. Poulose|| Minister for Food & Agriculture
|-
|8||V. K. Velappan||Minister for Public Health & Electricity (expired on 26 August 1962)
|-
|9||K. Kunhambu||Minister for Harijan Uplift & Registration
|-
|10||D. Damodaran Potti||Minister for Public Works
| rowspan="2" |[[Praja Socialist Party]]
|-
|11||[[K. Chandrasekharan]]||Minister for Law & Revenue
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of chief ministers of Kerala]]
* [[Kerala Council of Ministers]]
* [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]

==References==
{{reflist}}
* http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/Ministers%20Book%20Final.pdf
*{{cite web|url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/ministers49_main.htm|title=Official website of INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT OF KERALA|publisher=prd.kerala.gov.in|accessdate=13 May 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708185932/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/ministers49_main.htm|archivedate=8 July 2016}}

{{Keralite ministries}}

[[Category:Kerala ministries]]
[[Category:1960 establishments in Kerala]]
[[Category:1962 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Cabinets established in 1960]]
[[Category:Cabinets disestablished in 1962]]

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