1. After the general elections in March 1967, what was popularly known as the United Front Ministry took office in this State on 6-3-1967, headed by the 3rd Respondent (Sri. E. M. S. Namboodiripad) as the Chief Minister. The personnel of the Ministry was drawn from seven different political parties, viz., the Marxist-Communists (CPIM.), the Communist Party of India (Rightists or Right Communist-CPI.), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP.), the Muslim League, the Samyuktha Socialist Party (SSP.), the Karshaka Thozhilali Party (KTP.) and the Kerala Socialist Party (KSP.). The Chief Minister belonged to the Marxist Communist Group, and the petitioner, who was the Finance Minister, to the SSP. It is of some relevance to mention that the Speaker of the Assembly was a Member of the S.S.P., and that Sri. Willington the Health Minister, belonged to the KTP. There was a Co-ordination Committee drawn from the ranks of all the coalition parties, and of which all the Ministers were members, to evolve the greatest common measure of agreement amongst the parties, and to serve, according to the petitioner, as a balance-wheel in running the administration. On 13-2-1969 two members o