Bhargavi Thankappan (born 1942) is an Indian politician of the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

. She was the deputy speaker of the 8th

Kerala Legislative Assembly The Kerala Legislative Assembly, popularly known as the Kerala Niyamasabha, is the State Assembly of Kerala, one of the 28 states in India. The Assembly is formed by 140 elected representatives. Each elected member represents one of the 140 c ...

Early life

Bhargavi was born on 24 July 1942 in

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to K. Easwaran and his wife K. Kutty. She received her

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degree in commerce from Sree Narayana College, Kollam.

Career

Bhargavi took up a job at the Rubber Board for a brief period in 1968, before working for the Kerala State Electricity Board until 1971. She entered the

for the first time from Neduvathoor constituency as a candidate of the

(CPI). Later, she won the

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from Adoor seat reserved for

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. She represented

Kilimanoor Kilimanoor is a panchayat and a town in the Chirayinkeezhu taluk of Trivandrum district in Kerala, India. It is located on MC/SH 1 Road, North-west of the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), 14 km east of Attingal and east of Var ...

in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th Kerala Legislative Assembly. She was the deputy speaker for the 8th assembly from 1987 to 1991. She is also a member of the state and national council of CPI. The CPI expelled Bhargavi in 2002, after the Justice Mohan Kumar Commission found that she had taken bribe from a liquor contractor for smooth running of his business without government intervention. Five years later, a Vigilance Special Court acquitted her for lack of evidence.

Personal life

Bhargavi married A. K. Thankappan on 29 June 1967. Together they have one son and two daughters.

References

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