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In 1970 CPM's R Krishnan retained the seat with a margin of 5,460 votes but the difference between the Congress-backed independent and Jana Sangh's Rajagopal was just 2,000 votes.
As a cub IAS officer, D Babu Paul, had realised two things about Gouri. One, she protected bold honest officers, even when her party's interests were hurt. Two, even her wrath was edged with motherly warmth.
No one has chronicled bureaucracy and its love-hate bond with Kerala politics with as much flair and wit as Babu Paul.
K M Mani was a genius who succeeded in turning a fledgling party into one of the most powerful political forces in Kerala, says Dr D Babu Paul.
Babu Paul passed away on Saturday early morning following a heart ailment at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
The first major feat in a string of feats that would mark Dr D Babu Paul out as one of Kerala's greatest bureaucrats was the successful commissioning of the Idukki hydroelectric project in 1975.
Babu Paul's dedication to Kerala was absolute and he did not discriminate between political parties and politicians when he criticised their actions or praised them.
Babu Paul entered government service at the age of 21 as a junior engineer, then cleared the civil service examination.
Babu Paul had an opinion on almost anything under the sun and he found no difficulty in conveying his mind to the learned and the uneducated.
The KASaV award for overall excellence 2019 was awarded to Dr Babu Paul, posthumously.
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