K. K. Rema (born 10 August 1970) is an activist-turned-politician associated with the

Revolutionary Marxist Party of India The Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI) is a left-wing communist political party in India. The party is based on the Marxist ideology, but has small parts of Marxist-Leninism. The party is formed as the merger of Kerala-based Revolutio ...

. She is the widow of

Revolutionary Marxist Party The Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) was a political party in Kerala, India. It was found by T.P. Chandrasekharan. It claims to uphold real communist ideologies and maintain internal democracy. It was found after T.P. Chandrasekharan, an ex-C ...

founder late

T. P. Chandrasekharan T. P. Chandrasekharan (July 1960 – 4 May 2012) was an Indian politician who was the founder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP), a breakaway group of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). Born in Onchiam, a rural village in Kozhikode ...

. She has contested from Vadakara constituency in Kerala during the state assembly elections of 2021 and won with a margin of 7491 votes.

Personal life and education

Rema was born in

Naduvannur Naduvannur is a Census town in Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India and a part of Kozhikode Urban Agglomeration. The name Naduvannur denotes that it was the centre of the territory of Kurumbranad. 'Nadu' means centre and ur(oor) me ...

village of

Kozhikode district Kozhikode (), or Calicut district, is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, along its Southwestern Malabar Coast. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 67.15% urbanised. ...

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to K. K. Madhavan and Dakshayani Amma. She did her primary schooling from Kavumthara AUP School and completed pre-degree from Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Kozhikode. Subsequently, she earned B.A. in History degree from

Malabar Christian College The Malabar Christian College (MCC), established in 1909, is one of the oldest institutions located in Kozhikode, Kerala, India. History It was established by Protestant Christian missionaries from Basel, Switzerland with the aim to impart educa ...

. She managed to complete the Junior Diploma in Cooperation (JDC) while being actively part of the communist movement. Her marriage to

was arranged within the party outlook which took place on 16 October 1994. Later on, she joined the Badakara Cooperative Rural Bank and was serving as the branch manager while the state assembly polls of 2021 were due.

Political activism

She served as the state vice president of SFI and was a state committee member in the 90s. Rema has been active in the local party activities in and around Vadakara, where she has been married till 2012. She has been a crusader against the murder politics and rape culture in Kerala and a strong voice in the struggles for women's rights in the last decade. Her husband, T P Chandrasekharan was killed on 4 May 2012 for being a vocal critic and a fighting force against the

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the nati ...

. Following her husband's martyrdom, she contested the Vadakara seat in the

2016 Kerala Legislative assembly election The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly. Voter turnout was 77.53%, up from 75.12% in the previous election. The result was declared on 19 May 2016. The Left ...

''GulfNews''.
Kerala Elections 2021 Candidate Watch: KK Rema, the reluctant candidate out to avenge her husband's murder
' but she had to finish at third position with a vote share of more than 20000 votes. Considering the trend this is such a great margin in Kerala elections. Meanwhile, RMP and different political organisations in other states came together and established the

, which was registered with the election commission in 2017. In 2021, K K Rema faced the assembly elections from Vadakara constituency with the unconditional support extended by UDF and became the first MLA of RMPI. She is the first woman communist to win from the constituency. She is the sitting MLA from

Vatakara Vatakara, also spelled Vadakara (formerly Badagara), , french: Bargaret, is a Municipality in the state of Kerala, India. Vatakara is located between Kannur and Kozhikode. The municipality of Vatakara covers an area of and is bordered by Ma ...

Constituency in the

2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election The 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held in Kerala on 6 April 2021 to elect 140 members to the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly. The results were declared on 2 May. The election saw the incumbent Left Democratic Front (LDF) reta ...

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Point Blank (Interviews) 2014 – Asking the right questions – K K Rema (Part 1)

Point Blank (Interviews) 2014 – Asking the right questions – K K Rema (Part 2)

Interview with K K Rema , Nethavinoppam , 30 Oct 2015

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