Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan,popularly known by his initials V. S.,is an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011. At 82,he was the oldest person to have assumed the office. He is affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as the chairman of Administrative reforms in Kerala with state cabinet rank from 2016 to 2021. He has served as Leader of the Opposition for 15 years which makes him the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Legislative Assembly.
K. R. Gouri,born Kalathilparambil Raman Gouri, commonly known as Gouri Amma, was an Indian politician from Alappuzha in central Kerala. She was one of the most prominent leaders of the Left movement in India.
Aroor is a fishing village located within the northern border of the Alappuzha district in Cherthala taluk,Kerala,India. It lies on either sides of National Highway 66 and serves as a gateway between Kochi and Alappuzha. Aroor,surrounded by Vembanad,Kaithappuzha,and Kumbalangi backwaters,is known for its seafood export industry. The Aroor-Kumbalam Bridge is the second-longest bridge in Kerala.
Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the secretary of the CPI(M) Kerala State Committee from 2015 to 2022. He stepped down from the position of state secretary due to his failing health. He was the Chief Editor of the Malayalam newspaper Deshabhimani.
Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 20 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Kerala state in southern India.
V. M. Sudheeran is an Indian politician,who was a former President of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC),former Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly,Health Minister of Kerala,and a prominent political leader in Kerala. He was a member of the 6th,11th,12th and 13th Lok Sabha representing Alappuzha each time and a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1996 representing Manalur.
T. V. Rajesh is an Indian politician from the state of Kerala,and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala. He represented the Kalliasseri constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Rajesh was the president of the DYFI Kerala state committee,and also a state committee member of the CPI(M).
Chittayam Gopakumar is an Indian politician who belongs to the Communist Party of India. He got elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly for the first time in 2011 as a candidate from Adoor constituency in Pathanamthitta District. He won again from the same constituency with a huge margin in 2016. He is current Deputy Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly.
R. Selvaraj was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Neyyattinkara constituency,Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,India. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),the present ruling party in Kerala but resigned from the Kerala Legislature and the party on 9 March 2012 and joined Indian National Congress party. His resignation was attributed to rampant factionalism in his party. After joining the Indian National Congress,he contested the by-election from Neyyattinkara on "Hand" symbol and romped home with a margin of 6,334 votes,pushing up the ruling UDF's slender majority in the 140-member Kerala Assembly to 73. He again contested from the same constituency in 2016 and 2021. but he got defeated in both elections,i.e. for 9543 votes in 2016 and it increased to 14262 votes in 2021. He was defeated by K. Ansalan of CPI(M) in both elections.
A. V. Thamarakshan is a politician from the South Indian state of Kerala. He has been member of Kerala Legislative Assembly multiple times. he started his political career with RSP which later on split to form RSP (Bolshevik). RSP(B) went on to merge with Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy in 2009. Thamarakshan has also been independent candidate. In September 2021,he elected as the president of the JSS.
M Swaraj is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was a representative of Thripunithura constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was the former Kerala State Secretary of Students' Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India. He is a member of the CPI(M) Kerala State Secretariat and State Committee.
Alappuzha District has four types of administrative hierarchies:
Shanimol Osman is an Indian politician from Kerala. Shanimol was elected as M.L.A to Kerala legislative assembly from Aroor on a by-election in 2019.
Saji Cherian is an Indian politician from Kerala. He currently serves as the minister for fisheries,culture &youth affairs in the second Pinarayi Vijayan government and as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Chengannur constituency. He was also the former Minister for Fisheries,Culture and Youth Affairs in the Second Vijayan ministry.Following a controversial speech in Mallappally in 2022 in which he spoke derisively of the Indian constitution,he resigned on July 6 amid mounting pressure from the opposition. He returned as the minister again on 4 January 2023 after the high court of Kerala rejected petition against him.
P. Jayarajan is a member of the CPI(M) Kerala state committee and former member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly who represented Koothuparamba constituency from 2001 to 2011. He served as the secretary of CPI(M) Kannur District Committee from 2010 until he was replaced by M.V. Jayarajan in March 2019. In March 2019 he was named the LDF candidate from Vatakara for the 2019 Indian General Elections.
Aroor State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2021 assembly elections,the current MLA is Daleema Jojo of CPI(M).
Six assembly by-elections were held on 23 September and 21 October 2019,to the six vacant seats in the Kerala Niyamasabha which consists of 140 constituencies in total.
K. U. Jenish Kumar is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly representing Konni constituency.
Cherthala State assembly constituency is one of the 140 state legislative assembly constituencies at the state Kerala in southern India. It is also one of the 7 state legislative assembly constituencies included in the Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency. The current MLA is P. Prasad of CPI.
P. Prasad is an Indian politician,social worker and environmentalist from Kerala. He is currently serving as a Minister for Agriculture,Government of Kerala;represents Cherthala constituency in 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He is executive committee member of Communist Party of India.
