After becoming a party member in 1986 , he rose through the ranks of the party as member of Cherthala Town East local committee and Cherthala area committee , subsequently becoming a member of the Alappuzha district committee in 1996 . When he was elected to the state legislative assembly in 2006 , he had been working as Cherthala area secretary of the party for six years . During his stint as area secretary , he led an agitation demanding a judicial investigation into the Muthanga shooting incident in which Adivasis were shot dead by the police . In a police lathi charge during the protests , he sustained serious injury to the spine and thigh bone and had to be hospitalized
Muthanga shooting incident
Muthanga incident
A. M. Ariff