V. Sivankutty

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V Sivankutty
Minister for Education & Labour, Government of Kerala
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2021 (2021-05-20)
Chief Minister	Pinarayi Vijayan
Preceded by	C. Raveendranath (Minister for General Education) T. P. Ramakrishnan (Minister for Labour)
Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
In office 2007 (2007)–2011 (2011)
Preceded by	B. Vijayakumar
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Thiruvananthapuram East
In office 2011 (2011)–2016 (2016)
Preceded by	N. Sakthan
Succeeded by	O. Rajagopal
Constituency	Nemom
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 May 2021 (2021-05-24)
Preceded by	O. Rajagopal
Constituency	Nemom
Personal details
Born	(1954-11-10) 10 November 1954 (age 67) Cheruvakkal, Trivandrum, State of Travancore–Cochin (present day Kerala), India
Political party	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Spouse(s)	R. Parvathy Devi
Relations	P. Govinda Pillai M. N. Govindan Nair P. K. Vasudevan Nair V. Viswanatha Menon
Children	1
Parent(s)	M. Vasudevan Pillai P. Krishnamma
Residence	Thiruvananthapuram

Vasudevan Sivankutty (born 10 November 1954) is an Indian politician, currently serving as the Minister for Education and Labour,^[1] Government of Kerala. He represents the Nemom Constituency in the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly.

Sivankutty is a State Committee Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala and the State Secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) Kerala, and the District President of CITU, Thiruvananthapuram.

Personal life[]

Sivankutty was born as the son of activist M. Vasudevan Pillai and P. Krishnamma, at Cheruvakkal, Thiruvananthapuram on 10 November 1954. He is a BA. LLB (course completed), and was educated at Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy and the Kerala Law Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. He is the son-in-law of late communist ideologue P. Govinda Pillai and Kerala University professor M. J. Rajamma. He is also a relative of poet Sugathakumari and of former chief minister P. K. Vasudevan Nair.^{[citation needed]}

Political career[]

Sivankutty entered politics through the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and has held positions such as its District President, State President, District Secretary, State Secretary and All India Joint Secretary. From SFI, he joined the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), and currently holds positions such as its State Secretary and District President.

He was the President of the erstwhile Ulloor Panchayat, the Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, the Joint Secretary of the All India Mayors’ Council, the MLA of Thiruvananthapuram East and then Nemom (2011 - 2016).^[2]

In the recently concluded Kerala Assembly Elections, he defeated BJP's Kummanam Rajasekharan and K. Muraleedharan to become the MLA of Nemom again (2021–Present). He is currently a Minister in the Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF cabinet, handling portfolios Public Education and Labour.^[3] The other departments under him right now are Literacy Movement, Employment and Training, Skills, Rehabilitation, Factories and Boilers, Insurance Medical Service, Industrial Tribunals, and Labour Courts.

Personal life[]

He is married to women's rights activist and Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) member R. Parvathi Devi. They have one son.^[4]

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