Pinarayi Vijayan

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Pinarayi Vijayan ( Malayalam പിണറായി വിജയൻ ; born May 24, 1945 in Pinarayi, Kannur District , then Madras Province , British India , now Kerala , India ) is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM). He has been Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala since May 25, 2016 .

biography

Pinarayi Vijayan was born in a small village in what was then British India. He comes from a modest background. His father worked as a toddy-tapper , meaning he made a living tapping sugar palm juice , which is used to make palm wine . He attended school in his home district and then graduated from Brennen College , Thalassery . In his youth he came into contact with Marxist ideas and the communist movement, which is traditionally strong in Kerala (1957-1959 there was the first communist-led government in an Indian state), and finally joined the Communist Party of India ( Marxist) (CPM). In 1964 he was elected General Secretary of the Kerala Students' Federation in Kannur District. Then he rose in the local party hierarchy of the CPM in Kannur. In parliamentary elections in Kerala he was elected a total of four times as a member of the CPM in the parliament of Kerala (1970, 1977, 1991 and 1996; the first three in the constituency of Koothuparambu , the last in the constituency of Payyannur ). During the time of the state of emergency in India 1975–1977 , he was, like many other politicians in opposition to the policies of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi , imprisoned for many months. In the following two decades he was active as a functionary of the CPM in Kerala and gradually rose in the party hierarchy. After the death of the previous CPM General Secretary in Kerala, Chadayan Govindan, Vijayan took over this office in 1998 and held it (with multiple re-elections) until 2012.

In the government of the Chief Minister on Kerala EK Nayanar (1996-2001) Vijayan held the office of Minister for Electricity and Energy from 1996-1998. Pinarayi Vijayan was sworn in as Chief Minister of Kerala on May 25, 2016 after the Left Democratic Front, an alliance of the CMP and other left parties, won the Kerala general election in 2016.

Pinarayi is married and has two children with his wife Kamala, Veena and Vivek.

Web links

  • Pinarayi Vijayan , biography on the website of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala (English)
Commons : Pinarayi Vijayan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chintha Mary Anil: Meet the man behind the iron facade: Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala's chief minister. TheNewsMinute, May 20, 2016, accessed August 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on August 11, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  3. ↑ Pinarayi Vijayan. Retrieved on August 11, 2016 (biography on the website of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala).
  4. ↑ Shaju Philip: Pinarayi takes oath today: LDF austerity drive - Ministers' houses won't be refurbished. The Indian Express, May 25, 2016, accessed May 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Vijayan, Pinarayi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES പിണറായി വിജയൻ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinarayi, Kannur District , then Travancore-Cochin , British India