Pinarayi Vijayan Wiki, Biography, Age, Political Life, Family, Images

Pinarayi Vijayan is an Indian Politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala. He is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India. He served as a secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1998 to 2015. Vijayan also served in the government of Kerala as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives from 1996 to 1998. He made the headline of inaugurating India’s first-ever Water Metro in Kerala with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Interesting Facts

•  In the 2016 Kerala Assembly elections, Pinarayi Vijayan won from the Dharmadom constituency with a margin of 36,905 votes.
• He was selected as the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and sworn in as the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala on 25 May 2016.
• After completing his school education, Vijayan worked as a handloom weaver for a year. 
• His son Vivek works at HSBC bank, in Abu Dhabi and his daughter is in Bangalore, India where she manages a web startup.
• The family resides in the official residence of the Chief Minister at Trivandrum.
• His Instagram account has over 1.2M followers (as of April 2023).

Pinarayi Vijayan Political Life

Pinarayi Vijayan made his entry into politics during his student days at Government Brennen College, Thalassery. He eventually participated in student union activities and joined the Communist Party of India in 1964. He then became the Kannur district secretary of the Kerala Students Federation (KSF) and later became the Students Federation of India (SFI). He earned the position of state secretary and state president of the party and moved to the Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF), which eventually became the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI). During that period, Vijayan was imprisoned for one and a half years for his political activities from different hide-outs. when communists in Kerala were organizing political activities from different hide-outs, Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and a half years.

Later, Vijayan was elected as the president of the Kerala State Co-Operative Bank. He was arrested and tortured during the years of emergency. He then became the Kannur district secretary of the CPI(M). Within three years, Vijayan became a member of the State Secretariat and was elected to the Assembly in 1970, 1977, and 1991 from Koothuparamba, in 1996 from Payyannur, and 2016 from Dharmadom. He was the Minister for Electric Power and Co-operatives in the E.K. Nayanar ministry from 1996 to 1998.

In 1998, he was elevated to the post of CPI(M) state secretary following the death of the incumbent Chadayan Govindan. He got elected to the Politburo of the CPI(M) in 2002. On 26 May 2007, the CPI(M) suspended Pinarayi Vijayan and V. S. Achuthanandan from Politburo for their public remarks on each other. At the time, Vijayan was reinstated into the Politburo. Pinarayi Vijayan became the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala on 26 May 2016.

Pinarayi Vijayan’s Positions Held

• State president and secretary of Kerala Student’s Federation and president of Kerala State Youth Federation.
• President of Kerala State Co-operative Bank
• Elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1970, 1977, 1991, 1996, 2016, and 2021.
• Minister in Kerala government between 1996 and 1998.
• Secretary of the Kerala state committee of the CPI(M) between 1998 and 2015.
• Member of the CPI(M) politburo from 2002.
• Chief Minister of Kerala from 25 May 2016.
• Sworn in as the Chief Minister of Kerala for the Second time in a row on 20 May 2021.

Achievements

• Pinarayi Vijayan was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1970, 1977, 1991, and 1996.
• The state achieved a marked improvement in power generation capacity during Vijayan’s tenure as Electricity Minister, through timely execution and augmentation of new projects.
• Pinarayi Vijayan was awarded the Gandhidarshan award for best chief minister in 2018.
• The Institute of Human Virology honored Pinarayi Vijayan for effective control of the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala in Baltimore, United States. Noted bio-medical scientist and co-founder of the institute Robert Gallo presented awards to the Chief Minister and the Health Minister of Kerala.

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