Know your Politician
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Constituency : |
Kasaragod (Kerala )
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Party Name :
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Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPI(M))
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Email Address :
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[email protected]
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Father’s Name
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Shri Raman Panikkar
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Mother’s Name
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Smt. Chemmarathi
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Date of Birth
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11.01.1940
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Place of Birth
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Payyanur, Distt. Kannur (Kerala)
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Marital Status
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Married
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Date of Marriage
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07 May 1966
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Spouse’s Name
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Smt. M. Savithri
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No. of Sons
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3
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No.of Daughters
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1
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Educational Qualifications
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Matriculate, Diploma in Local-Self Government
Educated at High School, Payyanur and Trivandrum L.S.G.D. Institute,
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
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Profession
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Social Worker
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Permanent Address |
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Mambalam P.O. Payyanur,
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Kannur, Kerala
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Present Address |
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319, V.P. House,
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New Delhi – 110001
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(011) 23736372
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Position Held |
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1963
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Member, Communist Party of India
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1964 onwards
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Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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1989-90
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Secretary, [C.P.I. (M)], Distt. Kannur
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1996
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Elected to 11th Lok Sabha
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1996 onwards
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Member, State Committee, [C.P.I. (M)], Kerala
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Member, Secretariat [C.P.I. (M)], Distt. Kannur
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1996-97
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Member, Committee on Urban and Rural Development
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Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House
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1998
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Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
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Whip, CPI(M) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha
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1998-99
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Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House
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Member, Committee on Communications and its Sub- Committee “C”—Ministry
of Information and Broadcasting
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment
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1999
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Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
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1999-2000
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Member, Committee on Communications
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2000-2004
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development
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Social And Cultural Activities
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Working in Co-operative sector; President, (i) Weavers Society, Theru Mambalam, Payyanur; and
(ii) Payyanur Co-operative Hospital Society Ltd.; Chairman, Co-operative Spinning Mill, Kannur,
1987-89; Member, (i) Kasturba Memorial Reading Room, Payyanur; and (ii) A.K.G. Memorial
Kala Samithi, Payyanur
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Special Interests
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Reading Kalidasa’s Sanskrit Kavya and Malayalam novels, especially M.T’s novels, poems of
vallathol and Kumaranasan; Marxian classics and books by and on E.M.S. Namboodripad
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Favourite Pastime and Recreation
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Reading
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Other Information
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Director, A.K.G. Smaraka Memorial Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.; Kannur, Kerala; Member,
(i) Kisan Sabha, District Committee, Kannur; (ii) Telecom Committee, Kerala; (iii) Telecom
Circle Committee, Kannur; (iv) Zonal Railways Users Consultative Committee (Z.R.U.C.C.),
Southern Railway, 1998-99; and (v) Konkan Railway Users Consultative Committee, 1999
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Reference: Loksabha