K. Karunakaran: Four Terms, One Very Short One — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

He died at 5.30 pm on 23 December 2010, aged 92. Rao had died on the same date six years earlier.

DIC(K) was founded in Thrissur on 1 May 2005. He rejoined the Congress on 11 December 2007.

Narasimha Rao died on 23 December 2004; Karunakaran died on 23 December 2010, exactly six years later to the day.

His government approved and structured Kochi International Airport as India’s first public-private-partnership international airport, though it opened after his term ended.

He was never personally accused of spying. An internal Congress faction used the case’s fallout to engineer a no-confidence revolt against him, and the case itself was later shown to be fabricated.

He co-founded the UDF in 1979, but only led it into government from 1982, when his third term as Chief Minister began.

His first term ran just one month, from 25 March to 25 April 1977. He resigned over the “Rajan case,” an alleged custodial death during the Emergency.

He served under P.V. Narasimha Rao, whose rise to Prime Minister he had helped bring about.

He suffered serious fractures in a car accident on his way to Thiruvananthapuram, during his fourth term as CM.

He resigned amid the ISRO espionage case, which implicated a subordinate police officer and was later shown to be a fabricated conspiracy.

He founded and led the UDF through that full term, and the coalition still competes for power in Kerala today.

His first term ran from 25 March to 25 April 1977, ending when he resigned over the Rajan case.