M. K. Raghavan (born 21 April 1952) is an Indian Politician. He is a Member of

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and Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Party. He represents the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency of

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 belongs to

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

. He was the General Secretary of the

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 ...

. He was born to Krishnan Nambiar and Janaki Amma on 21 April 1952 at

Payyannur Payyanur, , is a municipal town and a taluk, a sub-district administrative unit, in the Kannur district of Kerala, India. On 10 March 2018, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated Payyanur as the fifth taluk in the district. Payyan ...

. Fielded as a strong candidate by the UDF in the LDF bastion of Kozhikode in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, M. K. Raghavan managed to wrangle victory riding on the general anti-CPI(M) wave in the state as well as the conscience votes of the CPI(M) partner Janata Dal (S) which was denied its sitting seat. However, it was noted that he won by a meagre 838 votes while three dummy candidates for his opponent P. A. Muhammad Riyas of CPI(M) bagged more votes than this winning margin. However, he cemented his victory with much better margins in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections in 2014 with 16,883 and 2019 with 85,225. He has selected as Chairman, Divisional Railway Monitoring Committee of Palakkad Division.

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Lok Sabha Member Profile: M. K. Raghavan
1952 births Living people India MPs 2009–2014 Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala Lok Sabha members from Kerala India MPs 2014–2019 Politicians from Kozhikode India MPs 2019–present {{Kerala-INC-politician-stub