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About C. M. Stephen
- C.
- M.
- Stephen (23 December 1918 – 16 January 1984) was an Indian politician and Union Minister in the Republic of India.
- C.
- M.
- Stephen was born on 23 December 1918 to Eapen Mathai and Esther of Chembakassery house in Cherukole, Mavelikkara.
- During his school days, Stephen was active in the Balajanasakhyam (promoted by Malayala Manorama).
- This helped him to develop leadership qualities, oratorial and organizing skills.
- After completing B.
- L., Stephen started his career as a journalist.
- He also started 'Pouraprabha' an evening daily.
- Through this daily, he supported the Travancore Congress and attacked the rule of C.
- P.
- Ramaswamy Iyer.
- In 1949, he gave up his career as a journalist and started practising law.
- In 1951, he joined active politics and in the same year became the D.C.C.
- president of Kollam.
- He was a close associate of veteran Congress leaders P.T.Chacko, Pattom Thanu Pillai and R.
- Sankar and provided leadership in the Vimochana Samaram during 1958-59 period as an associate of P.
- T.
- Chacko, Pattom Thanu Pillai, R.
- Sankar and others. He was also one of the founding fathers of Indian National Trade Union Congress, the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress.
- He won the State elections in 1960, 1965 and 1971.
- He was also elected as a Member of Parliament from Idukki in the 1976 parliamentary elections.
- He was a close aide of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
- He was the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party - Indira faction during 1978-79. C.
- M.
- Stephen also served in the Union Cabinet under Indira Gandhi, most notably as the Union Minister for Communications.
- Shashi Tharoor in his 'India: From Midnight to the Millennium' quotes Stephen's statement in Parliament that "the telephone was a luxury and not a necessity" as symptomatic of India's failure to invest in infrastructure and communications before the Reforms of 1991. Dharam Singh gave up the Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat to accommodate C.
- M.
- Stephen, the then Union Home Minister in the Indira Gandhi Cabinet, after he lost the election in Delhi to Atal Bihari Vajpayee. C.
- M.
- Stephen was buried at St.
- Mary Orthodox Cathedral, Mavelikkara.
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