K. B. Menon

K. B. Menon
Member of Parliament for Vadakara
In office
1957–1962
Preceded byPosition Created
Succeeded byA.V. Raghavan
Member of Madras State Legislative Assembly for Thrithala
In office
1952–1956
Preceded byPosition Created
Succeeded byConstituency Abolished
Personal details
Born
Konnanath Balakrishna Menon

(1897-06-18)18 June 1897
Thaliparamba, Malabar district, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Kerala, India)
Died6 September 1967(1967-09-06) (aged 70)
Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Political party
RelationsV.K. Krishna Menon

K. Sankara Menon K. Kunhirama Menon Dewan Raman Menon K.R.K. Menon

Bhaskar Menon
ParentVengalil Raman Memon Konnanath Lakshmi Amma
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of Colorado

Konnanath Balakrishna Menon (18 June 1897 – 6 September 1967) was an Indian academic, politician and revolutionary activist from Kerala. He was a professor at Harvard University and part of the revolutionary Ghadar Movement before returning to Kerala at the behest of Jayaprakash Narayan to champion Indian independence there in 1936. A protégé of both Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, he nonetheless eschewed nonviolence, as the mastermind behind and leader of the 27-man team behind the 1942 Keezhariyur bombings. He is remembered as the architect and father of the Quit India Movement in Kerala.[1]

After independence, he declined a position in Nehru's Indian Congress party government, instead representing Thrithala in the Madras State Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1956, and then Vadakara as its inaugural Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha between 1957 and 1962. In 1965 he was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly as member for Quilandy.[2][3]

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  2. ^ Biodata, Dr. K.B. Menon Member of Parliament (MP) from Badagara (Kerala) (26 December 2018). "Dr. K.B. Menon Member of Parliament (MP) from Badagara (Kerala) Biodata". Entranceindia. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  3. ^ DR. K. B., M.A., Ph.D., MENON. "MENON, DR. K. B., M.A., Ph.D." loksabhaph.nic.in. Retrieved 29 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)