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A. M. Ariff is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament representing Alappuzha constituency from 2019. A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he represented Aroor constituency in
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from 2006 to 2019. Ariff made his first win from Aroor in 2006 defeating veteran political leader
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. A. M. Ariff has been elected 3 times from Aroor to Kerala Legislative in the years 2006, 2011 and 2016. Ariff was elected to Loksabha in 2019 from Alappuzha. In a major electoral upset in the 2006 assembly elections, he defeated then-state Agriculture Minister and veteran politician K.R. Gouriamma. In the 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly Elections, he was placed third in the list of candidates who secured the most votes. In 2017, he was awarded the Best MLA in India Award by Kashmir to Kerala Social Foundation. In
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he is the only LDF and CPI(M) MP from Kerala.


Political life

Ariff began his active political life through student politics as a BSc degree student at Cherthala S.N. College where he was elected as College Union magazine editor and later, as chairman of the union. He subsequently held a series of positions in
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  as Cherthala area president, Alappuzha district secretary and finally became a state committee member of the student wing of the party. He later became a state committee member of
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, the youth wing of CPI(M).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ariff, A. M. 1964 births Living people Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Kerala Malayali politicians Kerala politicians People from Alappuzha district Kerala MLAs 2006–2011 Kerala MLAs 2011–2016 Kerala MLAs 2016–2021 India MPs 2019–present