E. M. S. Namboodiripad
（重定向自E.M.S.）
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![EMS with Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1979.](/Images/godic/202501/11/Nicolae_Ceauşescu_and_E._M._S._Namboodiripad1548.jpg")
![The E.M.S. Memorial Co-operative Hospital in Perinthalmanna](/Images/godic/202501/11/Ems_hospital1548.JPG")
Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad (13 June 1909 – 19 March 1998), popularly EMS, was an Indian communist politician and theorist, who served as the first Chief Minister of Kerala state in 1957–59 and then again in 1967–69. As a member of the Communist Party of India (CPI), he became the first non-Indian National Congress chief minister in the Indian republic. In 1964, he led a faction of the CPI that broke away to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).