Kerala Students Union is the Kerala branch of the National Students Union of India, the student wing of the Indian National Congress. KSU was founded on May 30, 1957 in Alappuzha.

KSU is the second largest student organization in Kerala. KSU believes in student activism based on a Progressive Thought, Secular Vision and Democratic Action. KSU entered the center stage of student politics in Kerala with the famous "Orana Samaram", a strike for travel concessions for students in buses and boats of the state.The agitation was success, and the government had to relent to the demands of KSU. From then onwards, the growth of KSU was tremendous. KSU became popular among the student community and with incessant struggles, the organization could achieve many a milestones of achievements. But it was only short lived as the rise of SFI(current largest student organisation in Asia) slowly weakened it and by the late 90's it was annihilated from the major universities of the state of Kerala.The communist Government led by E. M. S. Namboodiripad, which was the first democratically elected communist government in the world, was thrown out of office in 1959 by the congress led central government which saw the rise of other parties as a threat to itself. Various strikes and agitations were held by KSU against the state government and brought the educational system of the state to a halt by continuously disrupting the classes.

Kerala or Keralam /ˈkɛrələ/ is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was formed on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions.

The state has an area of 38,863 km² (15,005 sq mi) and is bordered by Karnataka to the north and northeast, Tamil Nadu to the east and south, and the Arabian Sea on the west. Thiruvananthapuram is the state capital. Kochi and Kozhikode are other major cities. According to a survey by The Economic Times, five out of ten best cities to live in India are located in Kerala.

Kerala has the highest Human Development Index in India, higher than that of most developed countries The state has the highest literacy rate in India with 93.91 percent. It hopes to be the first e-literate state in India through the state run Akshaya project. The state recently became and is currently the only one to have banking facilities in every village. A survey conducted in 2005 by Transparency International ranked Kerala as the least corrupt state in the country. Kerala is also ranked as India's cleanest state. Kerala has witnessed significant migration of its people, especially to the Persian Gulf countries during the Kerala Gulf boom and is heavily dependent on remittances from its large Malayali expatriate community.

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