Oommen Chandy, IPA: [umːɐn̺ t͡ʃɐːɳɖi], is an Indian politician and senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He served as the Chief Minister of Kerala for two terms, from 2004 to 2006 and again from 2011 to 2016. He was also Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011.
Olanchery Rajagopal is an Indian politician, former Union Minister of State, and the former MLA from Nemom and the first Bharatiya Janata Party member in the Legislative Assembly of Kerala. One of the major leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Kerala, he has held various ministerial portfolios including Defence, Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development, Law, Justice, Company Affairs, and Railways. Rajagopal was a two-time MP in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament from 1992 till 2004. O.Rajagopal was also a member of Kerala State Government's Legislative Assembly Committee on Petitions & Committee of Public Work, Transport and Communications.
Kannoth Muraleedharan is an Indian National Congress politician from Kerala, the son of eminent congress leader K. Karunakaran. He was elected as member of the Lok Sabha thrice from the Kozhikode constituency, subsequently leaving the party in 2005. For a while he had joined NCP of Sharad Pawar. Then he rejoined Congress. He was elected as the Chairman of KPCC Campaign committee in September 2018. He entered 17th Lok Sabha by winning from the Vatakara in 2019 general elections. He was the official candidate of UDF in Nemom Constituency for 2021 Assembly Elections.
Kerala Congress (B) is a registered-unrecognized political party in Kerala, formed by R. Balakrishna Pillai, a former minister of the government of Kerala. At present, the party has one MLA in the state Legislative Assembly, namely K. B. Ganesh Kumar, a well-known film actor and son of R. Balakrishna Pillai, who has been representing the Pathanapuram constituency in Kollam District since 2001. The Kerala Congress (B) was a constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) until 2015 and is now part of Left Democratic Front. Ganesh Kumar served as a minister in the UDF government led by Oommen Chandy beginning May 18, 2011 until his resignation on April 2, 2013.
Aruvikkara is a panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India. It is located on the banks of the Karamana River 15 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the state of Kerala in South India and one of the 12 panchayats that shares border with Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation. The reservoir and garden makes it a tourist spot. It is famous for the ancient Bhagavathi temple dedicated to Durga, the divine embodiment of female power, which is built on a rock. The stream in front of the temple contains large fishes, which are fed by the devotees visiting the shrine. The headquarters of the Wellington Water Distribution project is located here. The small Aruvikkara Dam which provides water to the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. K.S Shabarinath of INC is the sitting MLA of Aruvikkara constituency to the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
M. Vijayakumar, is an Indian politician and advocate. He is the former Minister for Law in the Government of Kerala and a member of both State and Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He represented the Trivandrum north constituency, Thiruvananthapuram in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Speaker of 10th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
G. Karthikeyan was an Indian politician and the speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A) from Aruvikkara, Thiruvananthapuram, who represented the Indian National Congress party.
The thirteenth Kerala legislative assembly election was held on 13 April 2011 to elect members representing 140 constituencies in Kerala. Election results were released on 13 May 2011. The election, whose results were released on 13 May 2011, proved to be one of the closest ones in Kerala's history, with the United Democratic Front (UDF) beating the Left Democratic Front (LDF) by a margin of 4 seats.
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.
Anoop Jacob is an Indian politician and a Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly and Legislative Party leader of the Kerala Congress (Jacob), a constituent of the UDF political alliance. He is the son of T. M. Jacob who founded the party in 1993. Anoop represents Piravom Constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Assembly following a by-election at Piravom in March 2012 which was necessitated due to the demise of his father, the incumbent of the constituency. He was re-elected in May 2016.
The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
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 also a member of the CPI(M) Kerala State Committee.
K.K. Ramachandran Nair was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and represented Chengannur constituency in the Kerala state legislative assembly from 2016 until his death.
Neyyattinkara taluk is part of Trivandrum except kattakada assembly constituency which is part of Attingal.
M. M. Mani is an Indian politician and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and the current electricity minister of Kerala. [1] He is the Minister for Electricity in Pinarayi Vijayan Ministry in Kerala. He is elected as the MLA from Udumbanchola constituency. He was the former District Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Adv. V. K. Prasanth, popularly known as 'Mayor Bro', is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was born and raised at Kazhakootam, Thiruvananthapuram. In 2015, aged 34, he was elected to the Kazhakoottam ward of the city, with a margin of 3,272 votes, the highest majority secured by a candidate in the corporation's history. He went on to become the 44th, and youngest ever, mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, the largest corporation and capital of Kerala.
The 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held in Kerala on 6 April 2021 to elect 140 members to the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly. The results were declared on 2 May.
K. U. Jenish Kumar is an Indian politician belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is the current member of Kerala Legislative Assembly from the Konni.
Aruvikkara 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 Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. As of the 2016 assembly elections, the current MLA is K. S. Sabarinathan of INC.
Divya Sesha Iyer is a medical doctor, Indian bureaucrat, editor, and author who is part of the Indian Administrative Service in Kerala.
