Since then the movement has been in the news less and has concentrated on occupying land at Aralam farm, a huge cooperative farm that the government had promised to distribute amongst landless adivasis.
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Indeed, apart from K. R. Gowri Amma (a former communist leader who became minister several times, coming from a lower-caste—Ezhava—background) and K. Ajitha (a former Naxalite leader and now organiser of a feminist NGO), there are not many women in Kerala who make it to such political prominence.