After E M S Namboothiripad Government was dismissed, Kerala was under President rule.

[1] Indian National Congress became the largest party with 63 seats in the assembly after the elections.

Congress and PSP formed a coalition government, with Pattom A Thanu Pillai of PSP as the Chief Minister, and R Sankar from Congress as the Deputy Chief Minister.

Even though PSP was a junior partner in the coalition, Pattam was chosen as the Chief Minister because the congress leader R Sankar was from Ezhava caste which the Nair Service Society, the main supporters of Congress, disapproved of.

Pattam resigned on 26 September 1962 when he was posted as the Governor of Punjab.