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Pinarayi Vijayan is an influential left politician and a former minister of Kerala, South India. He was born 21st March 1944 in Pinarayi in Kannur district. Currently he is the Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM).
Pinarayi Vijayan entered politics through student union activities and eventually joined the Communist Party in 1964. He was the President and Secretary of the Kerala Student's Federation (KSF) and also served as the President of Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF). During that period, when communists in Kerala were organising the poltical activities from different hide-outs, Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and half years. Late he was elected the President of the Kerala State Co-operative Bank.
1970 witnessed his entry in to the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected in 1977, 1991 and 1996. He was the Minister for Electricity in the E.K. Nayanar ministry from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 after the demise of Chadayan Govindan, then CPI(M) State Scretary of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan was elected as the successor and he resigned from the ministry and took the office of State Secretary of Kerala CPI(M). He was elected to the Polit Bureau of CPI(M) in 2002. He has been involved in an ideological and power struggle with V S Achutanandan, the current chief minister of the state. He is married with two children.