 He joined the Communist Movement by becoming a member of the Communist Party of India during the 1940s.He became the president of the Varkala Panchayat in 1957, when the first democratically elected Communist Government took office in Kerala State.He was married to Saudamini in 1957, a college lecturer in History at the time who later on became the Professor and Head of the Department of History at the Maharaja's College for Women in Trivandrum.