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{{Infobox government cabinet
|cabinet_name = R Sankar Ministry
|cabinet_number = 2nd
|jurisdiction = Kerala
|incumbent = 26 September 1962 – 10 September 1964
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|date_dissolved = 10 September 1964
|government_head = [[R. Sankar]]
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|political_party = [[Indian National Congress]]
|election = [[1960 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]]
|opposition_party = [[Communist Party of India]]
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|previous = [[Pattom Thanupillai Ministry|Pattam Ministry]]
|successor = [[Second E. M. S. Namboodiripad Ministry|Second EMS Ministry]]
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[[R. Sankar]] became the Chief Minister of Kerala when [[Pattom Thanupillai]] was appointed as [[List of governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]] State. He remained as the [[Chief Minister of Kerala]] from 26 September 1962 to 10 September 1964. He had to resign when a no-confidence motion was passed in the Assembly.

Congress party went through a split during this period. The resignation of [[P. T. Chacko]] from the R. Sankar Ministry had paved the way to the eventual formation of [[Kerala Congress]]. After his untimely death, the Chacko loyalists in the Congress party grouped together and formed the Kerala Congress under the leadership of [[K. M. George (politician)|K. M. George]] from [[Muvattupuzha]] with the blessings of [[Mannath Padmanabhan]].

== Council of Ministers ==

{|class="wikitable"
|-
! !!Minister!!Ministry/Portfolio
!Party
|-
|1||[[R. Sankar]]||[[Chief Minister (India)|Chief Minister]]
| rowspan="7" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|2||[[P. T. Chacko]]||Minister for Home Affairs
(resigned with effect from 20 February 1964)
|-
|3||K. A. Damodara Menon||Minister for Industries
|-
|4||[[P. P. Ummer Koya]]||Minister for Local Administration, Fisheries & Public Works
|-
|5|| [[K.T. Achuthan|K. T. Achuthan]] ||Minister for Transport & Labour
|-
|6|| E. P. Poulose ||Minister for Food & Agriculture
|-
|7|| K. Kunhambu||Minister for Harijan Welfare & Registration
|-
|8||D. Damodaran Potti|| Minister for Public Works
(resigned w.e.f. 8 October 1962)
| rowspan="2" |[[Praja Socialist Party]]
|-
|9||[[K. Chandrasekharan]]||Minister for Law and Revenue
(expired on 26 August 1962)
|-
|10||M. P. Govindan Nair||Minister for Public Health
(assumed office on 9 October 1962)
| rowspan="2" |[[Indian National Congress]]
|-
|11||T. A. Thomman||Minister for Land Revenue, Law & Legislation (assumed office on 2 March 1964)
|}

== Vote of No-Confidence ==
Home Minister in R. Shankar cabinet, [[P. T. Chacko|P. T Chacko]] had to resign. This paved the way to frequent infighting in Congress party. After the death of P. T. Chacko in Aug 1964, [[K. M. George (politician)|K. M. George]] took the leadership of the dissident group in Congress. 15 Congress MLAs requested the Speaker of the House to be considered as a separate group under the Leadership of K. M. George and Deputy Leader [[R. Balakrishna Pillai]]. Subsequently, a no-confidence motion was presented in the assembly. After two days of discussion, the no-confidence motion passed 50 against 73 votes and R. Sankar resigned.

Dissidents from the Congress party subsequently formed a new party [[Kerala Congress]]

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

==References==
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* 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:Indian National Congress state ministries]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress of Kerala]]
[[Category:1962 establishments in Kerala]]
[[Category:1964 disestablishments in India]]
[[Category:Cabinets established in 1962]]
[[Category:Cabinets disestablished in 1964]]

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