Kodikunnil Suresh is an Indian politician and working president of

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (abbreviated as Kerala P. C. C. or the K. P. C. C.) is the state unit of the Indian National Congress in Kerala. The Indian National Congress currently leads the United Democratic Front alliance, the Oppositi ...

(KPCC). He was a Minister of State in the

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. He is a member of the seventeenth Lok Sabha representing

Mavelikara Mavelikkara is a taluk and municipality in the ''Onattukara'' region of Alappuzha district in the Indian state of Kerala. Located in the southern part of the district on the banks of the Achankovil River. Etymology The name Mavelikara ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

. He has been a member of

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

seven times. He is also the Secretary of the

All India Congress Committee The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the presidium or the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress. It is composed of members elected from state-level Pradesh Congress Committees and can have as many as a thousan ...

(AICC).

Early life and education

He was born in Kodikkunil,

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...

District to a poor family, as the youngest son of Kunjan and Thankamma. He did his graduation and passed his LL.B from Law College, Thiruvananthapuram.

Political career

He was elected to the

for the first time in 1989 and thereafter in the 1991,1996, 1999 General Elections to the Lok Sabha from Adoor Constituency. He was defeated in the 1998, 2004 elections. He served as the member of the

and member of AICC. He won the general election to the Lok Sabha in 2009 defeating R. S. Anil of Communist Party of India with a margin of 48,048 votes. In 2014 he won the Lok Sabha elections defeating Chengara Surendran of Communist Party of India and is the present

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

from Mavelikkara constituency. He has been selected as working president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on 19 September 2018.

Controversies

His victory in the 2009 election was declared void by the Kerala High Court over the allegation that his caste certificate was fake, and that he was a Christian. This verdict was later reversed by the Supreme Court.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suresh, Kodikunnil Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala 1962 births Living people Malayali politicians Indian Christians India MPs 2009–2014 Lok Sabha members from Kerala India MPs 1989–1991 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2014–2019 People from Thiruvananthapuram district India MPs 2019–present Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram alumni