M. K. Raghavan

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M.K. Raghavan
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Member of Parliament
SECRATARY CONGRESS PARLIAMENTARY PARTY
Incumbent
Assumed office
10 SEPT 2024
Personal details
Born (1952-04-21) 21 April 1952 (age 72)
Payyannur, Kannur
Nationality Flag of India.svg Indian
Political party Indian National Congress
SpouseUsha Kumari
ChildrenOne son & one daughter
Parent(s)Krishnan Nambiar Mundayat, Janaki Amma
Residence(s)Ashoka, Madhuravanam Road, Kozhikode, Kerala
Website https://mkraghavan.in/

M. K. Raghavan (born 21 April 1952) is an Indian Politician. He is a Member of Lok Sabha and a Secretary of Congress Parliamentary Party.

He represents the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala. He belongs to INC. [1] [2] He was the General Secretary of the KPCC. [3] He was born to Krishnan Nambiar and Janaki Amma on 21 April 1952 at Payyannur, Kerala.

Fielded as a strong candidate by the UDF in the LDF bastion of Kozhikode in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, M. K. Raghavan managed to wrangle victory riding on the general anti-CPI(M) wave in the state as well as the conscience votes of the CPI(M) partner JD(S) which was denied its sitting seat. However, it was noted that he won by a meagre 838 votes while three dummy candidates for his opponent P. A. Muhammad Riyas of CPI(M) bagged more votes than this winning margin. [4] However, he cemented his victory with much better margins in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections in 2014 with 16,883, 2019 with 85,225 and 2024 with 1,42,087. [5]

He has selected as Chairman, Divisional Railway Monitoring Committee of Palakkad Division.

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  2. ↑ "Congress ticket for Shashi Tharoor". The Hindu . 21 March 2009. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  3. ↑ "Move against Agreenco is political vendetta". The Hindu . 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  4. ↑ "M.K. Raghavan scrapes through in Kozhikode".
  5. ↑ Bureau, The Hindu (4 June 2024). "Lok Sabha elections: With fourth consecutive win, Raghavan sets another record in Kozhikode". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 9 July 2024.{{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
Preceded by MP of Kozhikode
2009 – present		Incumbent


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