[1] She is also the leader of Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha, a social movement that has been agitating since 2001 for redistribution of land to the landless tribal people in Kerala.

In 2016, she announced a new political party, Janathipathya Rashtriya Sabha, and contested the 2016 Kerala assembly polls in alliance with BJP, as a part of NDA from Sultanbathery unsuccessfully.

[4] Janu started her career as a domestic servant at a local school teacher's house, at the age of seven, and spent five years there.

In 2001, Janu led a protest march through the state and held a kudil ketti samaram in front of the Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram to demand land for landless tribal people which lasted 48 days and resulted in convincing Kerala Government to distribute land to the tribal people.

On 19 February 2003, the tribal people had gathered under Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha (AGMS) to protest the Kerala government's delay in allotting them land, which had been contracted in October 2001.

A video of the firing was aired on several television news programs[9] and prompted noted author, Arundhati Roy, into writing You have blood on your hands.

The book was later translated into English by N Ravi Shankar under the name, Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of CK Janu.