The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats,and one of the national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant faction.
Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan,popularly known by his initials V. S.,is an Indian politician who was the Chief Minister of Kerala from 2006 to 2011. At 82,he was the oldest person to have assumed the office. He is affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as the chairman of Administrative reforms in Kerala with state cabinet rank from 2016 to 2021. He has served as Leader of the Opposition for 15 years which makes him the longest serving Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Legislative Assembly.
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).
Pinarayi Vijayan is an Indian politician who serves as the Chief Minister of Kerala since 25 May 2016. A member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),he is the longest-serving secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) (1998–2015). He has also served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives during the third E. K. Nayanar ministry. Vijayan won a seat in the May 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election and 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election as the CPI(M) candidate for Dharmadom constituency and was selected as the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and became the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala. He is the first chief minister from Kerala to be re-elected after completing a full term in office. In 2022,he also became the longest-continuous serving chief minister of Kerala surpassing C. Achutha Menon who had been the first to remain in office for 2364 consecutive days.
New Mahe is a census town in Thalassery taluk of Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is part of Greater MahéRegion.
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.
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.
Chadayan Govindan was a Communist politician and a former minister of Kerala,South India. He was the secretary of the Kerala State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) until his death on 9 September 1998.
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).
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.
V.N. Vasavan is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Ports and Cooperation and Minister for Devaswoms,Government of Kerala in the second Pinarayi Vijayan Ministry. Now he is also the MLA from Ettumanoor assembly constituency of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for Kottayam district. Vasavan is the member of the Kerala Legislature for the constituency of Ettumanoor.
The Politburo or Polit Bureau is the highest body of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The members of the Politburo are elected by the Central Committee in the immediate aftermath of a National Party Congress,which is held every three years.
E. P. Jayarajan Nambiar is an Indian politician from the state of Kerala. He was the Minister for Industries and Sports in the First Vijayan ministry. He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly from Mattanur constituency in Kannur district and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
K. K. Shailaja is an Indian politician and former Health Minister of Kerala who hails from Kannur district.
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.
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.
M. V. Jayarajan is an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India Kerala State Committee and secretary of the Communist Party of India Kannur District Committee.
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.
Events in the year 2022 in Kerala.
