P. A. Mohammed Riyas

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Sameeha Saithalavi
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(m. 2002;div. 2015)​

Veena Vijayan
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(m. 2020)​
P. A. Mohammed Riyas
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Cabinet Minister, Government of Kerala
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2021
Relatives Pinarayi Vijayan (father-in-law)
Alma mater

P. A. Mohammed Riyas is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister for Public Works Department and Tourism, Government of Kerala. [1] He is the Kerala state committee member of far left CPI(M), and the former All India President of the DYFI. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Early life, family and education

Riyas was born in Kozhikode. [6] His father P. M. Abdul Khader, was an IPS officer. [7] His relative P. K. Moidheenkutty Sahib was a former president of KPCC, AICC member, freedom fighter, and a member of Madras assembly in 1937. [8]

Riyas did his schooling at St. Joseph's Boys' Higher Secondary School, Kozhikode and joined Farook College, Kozhikode for his pre-degree education. He continued in the same college for his under-graduate degree in BCom. Later he secured a law degree from Government Law College, Kozhikode. [6]

Personal life

He married Dr. Sameeha Saithalavi in 2002 and later divorced her in 2015 and they have two sons. [9] On 15 June 2020, he married T. Veena, the daughter of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. [10]

Political career

During his school days in St Joseph Boys High School, Kozhikode Mohammed Riyas was active with SFI. In his 8th standard, he became the President of the SFI unit committee, and in the next year, he became the unit secretary of the school committee. In his pre-degree days in Farook College, Kozhikode he was elected as the first-year pre-degree representative of the college. In 1994 Riyas became the unit president of SFI committee in Farook College, and in the next conference he became the secretary of the unit. From Farook college, he won the post for university union councillor of Calicut University in 1996–97. Later he became a university union office-bearer in 1998. Riyas gradually became a prominent leader of SFI. [11]

Riyas was a member of the DYFI, where he rose to become the president and finally the secretary of DYFI Kozhikode District Committee. [12] [13] [4] From 2010-16 he worked in the state centre of DYFI Kerala committee. During this period, he held the office of State Vice President and later Joint Secretary of DYFI Kerala state committee. [13] In 2016, he was elected as the All-India Joint Secretary of DYFI. In 2017, he became the All India President of DYFI. [3]

Riyas also joined the CPI(M) in 1993, where he was a district committee member for Kozhikode, [14] as well as a state committee member. [15] In 2022 he became State Secretariat member of CPIM Kerala [16]

Electoral politics

During the 2009 Indian general election, Riyas was the CPI(M) candidate for Kozhikode. [17] [18] M. K. Raghavan won the constituency with a margin of 838 votes over Riyas. Riyas contested the election result with a petition to the Kerala High Court alleging that Raghavan had published propaganda against him in print media. [19] [20] The petition was dismissed on 17 May 2010. [21]

ElectionYearPartyConstituencyOpponentResultMargin
Loksabha 2009 CPI(M) Kozhikode M. K. Raghavan (INC)Lost838
Kerala Legislative Assembly 2021 Beypore Adv. P. M Niyas (INC)Won28,747

P. A. Muhammed Riyas won from the constituency Beypore on margin of 28,747 Votes in 2021 Kerala Assembly Elections.


Political views

Riyas has criticised and opposed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA). [22] [23] [24] [25] He views the opposition against the CAA as a struggle for defending the Constitution of India. [26] On 6 January 2020, he led a rally against the CAA with 100,000 people at Kozhikode Beach. [27]

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