Chittakath Pottammel Kunchi Koyamu Haji
was born July 1st 1929 at Edakkulam,Malappuram district.His father though not succesfull was a small buisness man whose death when he was just six made his life extremely hard.And fate had made his mother bold enough look after him and his only sister Mrs.Immu.His father left a huge debt over him and his mother to his uncles.According to the family settlement they decided to take over his fathers land instead of debt(including intrest) and send her mpother her home.But his mother didn't agree the settlement and assured them that she would repay the debt by any possible mean.
Though he was not bad at studies,the situation forced him to stop studies by IVth STD.As the financial situation of muslim community in general and his family in particular was so poor he turned to whatever buisness(I dont know whether i can call it buisness or not) and work he can.And when I approached his collegues to learn about his buisness i was really surprised to know that there wasn'nt any field of buisness without his touch.
Buisness And Growth
- Talking about his buisness,it started from collection of sacks from diffrent shops of entire market and reselling them together at places like coimbatore and kozhikode.
- Then he started colllecting rice from farmers and reselling them.
- It was follwed by a small grocery shop at edakkulam.
- Then he turned to lotus and beetle cultivation
- At that time the company made cigrettes were used very rarely and the local made "beedies" (we call it so) were in great demand.his role was crucial in developing edakkulam as centre of beedi buisness
- Soon he got license for first four ration shops in Thirunavaya panchayath.(run under kerla civil supplies corperation)
- Similarly he got dealership of MALABAR CEMENTS(a govt. undertaking company)
- Initially he started with the ayurvedic and Unani medicines of AUSHADI and AL-SHIFA.Soon he turned to English medicines by establishing C.P MEDICALS and Later C.P DRUG HOUSE.He also attached a small clinic with a single doctor to the medical shop
- Under his guidence C.P GROUP co-partnered by his two sons started their first pharmacy cum clinic at Ghiyathi, a place nearer to Abu-dhabi.Right now C.P GROUP owns five pharmacies and two clinics in middle-east.Under his leadership C.P GROUP made its debut to kerala by becoming the calicut dealer of GODREJ PRODUCTS.And now C.P GROUP IS THE distributor of SHELL LUBRICANTS from Ernankulam to Kasargod,Calicut dealer of MICRO TECHNOLOGIES and started BIN10 IT SOLUTIONS earlier this year.
- He served as Secretary of EDAKKULAM MAHALL JAMA-ATH COMMITEE for more than thirty years and actively involved in solving the family desputes and property related issues in the MAHALL.His words were supreme over others and was the final decision.
- He along with his friend Late Mr.Ahmed Kutty Haji travelled to Malaysia to raise fund for the reconstruction of EDAKKULAM VALIYA PALLI(MOSQUE) where he used his relations effectively to collect donations.Later the EDAKKULAM TOWN JUMA MASJID was also reconstructed under his managment.
- He was one of the founder member of MARKAZU THARBIYATHUL ISLAMIYA VALANCHERY.He also served as the executive committee member of BHAFAKHY YATHEEM KHANA VALAVANNOOR,DARUL HUDA ACADEMY CHEMMAD,P.M.S.A YATHEEM KHANA KATILANGADI.
- Due to his relegious and social activness,he was selected to executive committee of MAUNAM(MAUNATHUL ISLAM SABHA) PONNANI.The registered institution to deal with reverts to islam and their rehabilitation.
As islam doesn't separate politics and relegion ,Muslim community keep harmonian relation with politics.My grandpa was not an exeption.He started his political career by joining MUSLIM LEAGUE and was one of the starting member of Tirur mandalam.His role in establishing the base for muslim league at thirunavaya and near by areas is inquestionable and kept close relation with early muslim league leaders like PANAKKAD THANGAL FAMILY,C.H,SAIT SAHEB,BANATHWALA,BAFHAKY THANGAL e.t.c.He was the member of MUSLIM LEAGUE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Later in BABARI issue he moved out of muslim league along with SAIT SAHEB to form INDIAN NATIONAL LEAGUE(INL).
He also served as
- INL Malappuram district vise president
- Muslim League Kuttipuram mandalam general secretary
- Tirur block vikasana samiti member
- Thirunavaya service cooperative bank president
"I personally feel like what he did is the limit of an orphan without much formal education can do(though he didn't score many a hundreds like me in maths,he was always ahead of me) and i am really proud to be his grand son."
