Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) is a youth organisation in India. It was founded in its inaugural conference held from 1–3 November 1980 at Shaheed Kartar Singh Saraba village in Ludhiana,Punjab. DYFI was formed as an independent youth organization with ties to leftist ideologies. Over time,it has become the youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM).
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.
Olanchery Rajagopal is an Indian politician,former Union Minister of State,and the former MLA from Nemom and the first Bharatiya Janata Party member &its floor leader 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 Government of Kerala's Legislative Assembly Committee on Petitions &Committee of Public Work,Transport and Communications.Rajagopal has been honored with the Padma Bhushan,the third-highest civilian honor in the country,on the eve of India’s 75th Republic Day. The award recognizes his contributions in the public sphere.
M. B. Rajesh is an Indian politician who has served as the State Minister for Local Self-Governments and Excise of Kerala,since 2022 and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs,since 2024. He previously served as the Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2021 to 2022 and represents Thrithala State Assembly Constituency since 2021.
Vaikom Viswan is a politician from the State of Kerala in India. He was the Convener of Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala and member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM).
Shri P. Sreeramakrishnan is an Indian politician born on 14 November 1967 in Perinthalmanna. He served as the resident Vice-Chairman of Norka-Roots. He became the Thirteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly member on 1 June 2011. He also served as the Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2021.
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).
A. N. Shamseer is an Indian politician who is the Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly since 2022. He represents Thalassery State Assembly Constituency since 2016. He was the CPI(M) nominee for Lok Sabha in the Vadakara Lok Sabha constituency in the 2014 Indian general election and is Kerala State Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the former President of Kerala lobby of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI).
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.
K. Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician who is the CPI(M) Parliamentary Party Leader in 18th Lok Sabha and Member of the Lok Sabha for Alathur since 2024. A veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),Radhakrishnan previously served as a State Minister of Kerala from 2021 to 2024,and from 1996 to 2001.
N. Sakthan is an Indian politician who was Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2016. He was also the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Kattakada,Thiruvananthapuram,from 2011 to 2016.
A. M. Ariff is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament representing Alappuzha constituency from 2019 till 2024. A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),he represented Aroor constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2019. Ariff made his first win from Aroor in 2006 defeating veteran political leader K. R. Gowri Amma. A. M. Ariff has been elected 3 times from Aroor to Kerala Legislative in the years 2006,2011 and 2016. Ariff was elected to Loksabha in 2019 from Alappuzha.
K. S. Sabarinadhan is an Indian politician who belongs to the Indian National Congress. He represented Aruvikkara constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2021.
James Mathew is an Indian politician from Kannur district,Kerala state,and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala in 13th and 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. He represents the Taliparamba constituency of Kerala and is a Kerala state committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party.
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.
Mathai Chacko was a politician from Kerala state. He was member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2001 - 2006. He represented the Thiruvambadi constituency of Kerala and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He became the first elected MLA to take oath outside the Kerala Legislative Assembly,having taken oath at Lake Shore Hospital in Kochi,where he was undergoing treatment for leukemia,on 29 May 2006.
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.
V. Sasikumar is the former MLA of Perinthalmanna assembly constituency and the National Secretary of Construction Workers Federation of India. He is currently the chairman of Kerala Building &Other Construction Workers Welfare Board,Govt of Kerala.
M. Vijin is an Indian politician from Kerala state. He has been serving as the MLA of Kalliaseri Constituency since May 2021. He is the state vice president of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI),Kerala unit. He was the former All India Joint Secretary of Students' Federation of India.
Xavier Chittilappilly is an Indian politician and social worker from Kerala,India. Xavier Chittilappilly is an Indian politician serving as the MLA of Wadakkanchery Constituency since May 2021. He is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He started his political career with Students' Federation of India (SFI) at time of his high school life. Since 2014 he has been the member of CPI(M) Thrissur District Secretariat.
