Padayatt Kesavapillai Vasudevan Nair,popularly known as PKV,was an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Kerala from 1978 to 1979. He was a Member of the Lok Sabha from 1957 to 1971 and again from 2004 until his death in 2005. He became Chief Minister on 29 October 1978,following A. K. Antony's resignation as Chief Minister. However he resigned on 7 October 1979 owing to differences with other parties in the United Front. He served in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 1982. Nair was a senior member of the Communist Party of India.
Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician,who is the incumbent State Secretary in West Bengal of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a Member of the 16th Lok Sabha,representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier,he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation,in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency,and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress. Mohammed Salim is contesting the 2024 Indian general election as the Left Front candidate from the Murshidabad.
Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurayil Abdullakkutty(born 8 May 1967) is an Indian politician. He was elected as the National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 26 September 2020. He has also served as the BJP Vice President of Kerala state. He is also a former member of Lok Sabha from Kannur and former MLA from Kannur constituency of Kerala state.
T. K. Hamza is an Indian politician. He was born in Koorad of Wandoor Panchayat. He completed his BA from University of Delhi and BL from Government Law College,Ernakulam. He joined the Manjeri Bar in 1968. He was the Minister for Public Works of the 8th Kerala Legislative Assembly,from 1987 to 1991. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Manjeri constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He is presently the Chairman of Wakf Board,Kerala.
Varkala V. Radhakrishnan was an Indian politician and member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He also served as the speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly. He represented the Chirayinkil constituency of Kerala and was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) political party. He represented the Varkala assembly constituency for five consecutive terms in Niyamasabha.
Sebastian Paul was a member of Parliament,representing Ernakulam in the 14th Lok Sabha.
Binoy Viswam is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament from Kerala representing the Communist Party of India (CPI) and was its Parliamentary Party leader. A member of the CPI National Secretariat,he is currently the State Secretary of CPI Kerala State Committee,the Editor of New Age Weekly - the central organ of CPI and the Working President of the All India Trade Union Congress. He served as the Minister for Forests &Housing in the Government of Kerala during 2006–2011. He was earlier elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Nadapuram constituency and served as Member,Estimates Committee;Chairman,Assurance Committee;and was one of the five members of the Constituency Delimitation Committee. He is a senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and the president of the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation Employees' Federation.
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.
A. Vijayaraghavan is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist),and was the Convener of Left Democratic Front in Kerala and former Acting Secretary of CPI(M) Kerala State Committee. He was born at Malappuram district. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Kerala in the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of the Parliament. He was the chairman of parliamentary committees on Subordinate Legislation and General Assurances,He was also the Chief Whip of CPI(M) in Rajya Sabha. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Palakkad Lok Sabha constituency in 1989. He is the Central Secretariat member of CPI(M) and General Secretary of All India Agricultural Workers Union. He served as the ad-hoc Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist),Kerala during 2022 elections.
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.
Sindhu Joy is an Indian former politician from the state of Kerala. She has served as the Chairperson of the Kerala State Youth Commission,National Vice President of Students Federation India,and President of the SFI Kerala State Committee. In 2011,she resigned from CPI-M and joined the Congress party. In 2013,she appeared on Malayalee House.
K. C. Venugopal is an Indian politician who is a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha elected from Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency and former member of parliament in Upper House and is a member of the Indian National Congress. He has been appointed a General Secretary of AICC and in charge of Karnataka on 29 April 2017. Later,he was given additional charge of the general secretary of the organization. He was the Minister of State for Civil Aviation &Ministry of Power in the UPA Government.
P. K. Kunhalikutty is an Indian politician and social worker who is the present Member of Legislative Assembly from Vengara Assembly Constituency in Kerala. He also serves as National General Secretary of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and Deputy Leader of opposition in Kerala Leglative Assembly.
V. S. Sivakumar is an Indian politician who is a member of Indian National Congress and a former Minister for Health,Family Welfare and Devaswom,Government of Kerala in the Second Oommen Chandy ministry. He has represented the Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency in Kerala from 2011 Assembly election in Kerala to 2021. He was a member of the 13th Lok Sabha representing Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency.
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).
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.
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.
Kalanjoor Narayana Panicker Balagopal is an Indian Politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist),who is serving as the Minister for Finance,Government of Kerala and Member of Legislative Assembly representing Kottarakkara. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha the Upper house of Indian Parliament from 2010 to 2016.
P. A. Mohammed Riyas is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister for Public Works Department and Tourism,Government of Kerala. He is the Kerala state committee member of far left CPI(M),and the former All India President of the DYFI.
