 Ramamurti opposed this by way of a petition in the Madras High Court seeking to annul Rajagoplachari's nomination.Ramamurti's daughter R. Vaigai writes about this during the end of a year-long celebration of his birth centenary in 2008 in The Hindu.In 1953, at the 3rd CPI party congress, he was elected to the Central Committee and the politburo of the party.