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Revision as of 12:41, 13 July 2006 by Soman (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pinarai Vijayan, a communist politician from Kerala, India. He is a Polit Bureau member of Communist Party of India (Marxist), and Kerala State Committee Secretary of CPI(M).
He was the Electricity & Cooperation minister in the Left Democratic Front cabinet 1996-1998, from which he resigned in October 1998 in order to take over as the Kerala state secretary of CPI(M) which was necessitated by the death of the then CPI(M) state secretary, Chadayan Govindan.Mr.Vijayan was substitued by S. Sarma in the ministry.
Now Mr.Pinanrayi is under the shadow of controversy over the SNC Lavalin scandal.This scandal is one of the Major scandal in the history of Kerala which cause the government to loss 3Billion Indian Rupees. As the Minister for Electricity, he entered an agreement with Canadian company SNC Lavalin and caused loss.
Timeline of significant happenings
- Date of Birth : March 21, 1944
- Graduate
- Entered politics through student movement
- Joined Communist Party in 1964
- Imprisoned for one and half years
- Was State President and Secretary of Kerala Student's Federation and President of Kerala *State Youth Federation.
- Served as President of Kerala State Co-operative Bank
- Elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1970, 1977, 1991 and 1996.
- Served as Cabinet Minister in Kerala Government between 1996 and 1998
- Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) since 1998
- Elected to the Polit Bureau in 2002
- Married with two children
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