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A directory connected the fighters of the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising volition beryllium released by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan during the valedictory relation of the 79th day of the uprising astatine Vayalar connected Monday (October 27, 2025).
Speaking to the media connected Sunday (October 26, 2025), Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] person and erstwhile Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac, who oversaw its preparation, said the directory includes accusation connected 1,859 participants of the Punnapra-Vayalar struggle. “Unlike accepted governmental histories, the directory has been compiled based connected documentary evidence. The names person been verified with leaders from some the CPI(M) and the Communist Party of India (CPI),” Mr. Isaac said.
Those listed arsenic leaders of the conflict see K.V. Pathrose (known arsenic Kunthakkaran Pathrose), who was the CPI caput during the Punnapra-Vayalar conflict and CPI person Varghese Vaidyan. Mr. Isaac said betwixt 400 and 500 radical were martyred successful the struggle. However, accusation could beryllium collected for lone 193 of them. “Tracing records 8 decades aft the uprising posed respective challenges. Many families of the participants had migrated to different parts of the State aft the Communist authorities distributed onshore successful 1957. The directory is the effect of years of enactment by a 20-member team,” helium added.
Two parts
The directory consists of 2 parts. The archetypal portion includes accusation astir the participants of the conflict from the country betwixt Aroor and Aryad grama panchayats. The 2nd portion covers Alappuzha municipality, Punnapra North and Punnapra South grama panchayats and different regions adjoining the Ambalappuzha boundary.
The information postulation was carried retired arsenic portion of the Alappuzha Heritage Tourism Project. The directory is disposable connected the Muziris Heritage Project website astatine www.punnpravayalar.org.
During the merchandise lawsuit connected Monday, the directory volition beryllium distributed escaped of outgo to A and B people libraries successful the Cherthala and Ambalappuzha taluks, as good arsenic to the section committees of the CPI(M) and the CPI. Libraries indispensable bring documents arsenic impervious of identity.
