P. R. Francis was an Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

 politician and a Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3892011 in...

 (INTUC) leader from Thrissur

Thrissur

This article is about the city in India. For the district, see Thrissur district. For the urban agglomeration area of Thrissur see Thrissur Metropolitan Area...

 and Member of the Legislative Assembly

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 of Ollur Assembly Constituency

Ollur Assembly Constituency

Ollur Assembly Constituency is a legislative assembly constituency in the Indian state of Kerala.Ollur is a citadel of Indian National Congress for a long time but occasionally it had gone to Communist Party of India. The Ollur Assembly Constituency has 84,452 male and 90,027 female voters. The...

 to Kerala Legislative Assembly

Kerala Legislative Assembly

The Kerala Legislative Assembly more popularly known as Niyamasabha , is the law making body of Kerala, one of the 28 States in India. The Assembly is formed by 140 elected representatives and one nominated member from the Anglo-Indian community...

 in 1957, 1960, 1970 and 1977. He has orgainsed workers of tile factories, plantation units, headload workers etc. in Thrissur and Ollur through Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3892011 in...

. He has also participated in Quit India Movement

Quit India Movement

The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table...

.

P R Francis Memorial Award, an award instituted in memory of P.R. Francis for the best social worker by P.R. Francis Smaraka
Samithi. The award is presented at Ollur

Ollur

Ollur is a major suburban area and an old commercial town in the Thrissur district of Kerala state, South India. It is situated about 5 km away from Swaraj Round on National Highway 47 commonly referred to as NH47 towards Ernakulam. From ancient time onwards Ollur was a major business centre...

 Town Hall and includes a cash prize of Rs 11,111 and memento.

Award winners

• 2003: P. Balan
• 2004: Aryadan Muhammed
  Aryadan Muhammed
  Shri. Aryadan Muhammed, the veteran Congress leader, was born on 15th May 1935 as the son of Shri. Unneen and Smt. Kadiyamunni.Entering politics as a Congress member in 1952, Shri...
  
   and Yesudasan
  Yesudasan
  Chackalethu John Yesudasan, better known as simply Yesudasan, is a popular cartoonist from Kerala. Born in 1938 in Bharanikavu near Mavelikkara, Yesudasan entered the world of cartoons in 1960. For three years with Malayalam daily of the Communist Party Janayugom. Joined Shankar's weekly in Delhi....
  
  
• 2005: V. M. Sudheeran
  V. M. Sudheeran
  V. M. Sudheeran , The former Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly and Health Minister, is an active social and political leader in Kerala and an active member of the Indian National Congress. He was born to V. S. Mama and Girija at a small village named Padiyam in Anthicad Panchayat of Thrissur...
  
  
• 2006: G. Karthikeyan
  G. Karthikeyan
  G Karthikeyan is an Indian politician and the speaker of kerala legislative assembly. He is currently the Member of the kerala Legislative Assembly MLA from Aruvikkara. He is the son of N. P. Gopala Pillai and Vanajakshy Amma. He was born at Varkala on 20 January 1949. He entered politics through...
  
  
• 2007: Dr P V Krishnan Nair
• 2008:
• 2009: K. M. Mani
  K. M. Mani
  Karingozhakkal Mani Mani is a veteran Indian politician and the leader of Kerala Congress , one of the factions of the Kerala Congress. He holds the records of having presented the maximum number of eight budgets in the Kerala Legislative Assembly as Finance Minister and also as the...
  
  
• 2010: K. Sudhakaran
  K. Sudhakaran
  K.Sudhakaran is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress political party.-References:...
  
  
• 2011: Ramesh Chennithala
  Ramesh Chennithala
  Ramesh Chennithala is an Indian politician. He is the son of late Ramakrishnan Nair. He was elected a Member of Parliament thrice and was also a Kerala State Cabinet Minister at the age of 27 under mentor ship of late K. Karunakaran...