- Source: 1997 in Kerala
Events in the year 1997 in Kerala.
Incumbents
Governors of Kerala -
Khurshed Alam Khan till January 25.
Sukhdev Singh Kang since January 25.
Chief minister of Kerala – E.K. Nayanar
Events
May 5 - A bus accident in Mylakkadu, Kollam district on National Highway 47 claims ten lives.
June 30 - Kerala State Co-operative Consumers Federation Limited starts 1020 Neeti Store across state through a formal inauguration by E. K. Nayanar at Thiruvananthapuram.
July 9 - United Democratic Front conducts 18 hour Hartal in the state to protest against the arrest of M. V. Raghavan in connection with Koothuparamba firing.
July 25 - K. R. Narayanan becomes the first Malayali and Dalit to become President of India.
July 28 - Kerala High Court declares bandh illegal and unconstitutional on a petition filed by the Ernakulam Chamber of Commerce.
August 6 - A police raid in an ice cream parlor in Kozhikode reveals Ice cream parlour sex scandal allegedly involving P. K. Kunhalikutty.
October 9 - Government of Kerala takes control over Sivagiri Mutt through an ordinance.
October 17 - Elizabeth II the monarch of United Kingdom visits Kochi.
October - Arundhati Roy becomes the first Indian author to win Booker Prize. She won the prize for her first book The God of Small Things.
December 6 - An Islamic fundamentalist organization carries out blasts in Chennai-Alleppey Express at Thrissur railway station killing three.
Deaths
15 July - Jayaram Padikkal, Indian Police Service officer, 60.
December 12 - M. G. Soman, actor, 56.
See also
History of Kerala
1997 in India
References
Media related to 1997 in Kerala at Wikimedia Commons
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