A. P. Makkar and Penthitta Gopalan Pillai were the other two members of the council. This council was short-lived. By 1953, Muvattupuzha was declared a Panchayat . Kunnappillil Varkey Vaidyan was the first president of the elected Panchayat Committee. Muvattupuzha was raised to the status of a Municipality in the year