Party Name : Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Constituency : Kasaragod
State : Kerala
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 3 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Shri Raman Panikkar
Mother's Name : Smt. Chemmarathi
Date of birth : 11 Jan 1940
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
1963 Member, Communist Party of India1964 onwards Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist)1989-90 Secretary, [C.P.I. (M)], Distt. Kannur1996 Elected to 11th Lok Sabha1996 onwards Member, State Committee, [C.P.I. (M)], KeralaMember, Secretariat [C.P.I. (M)], Distt. Kannur1996-97 Member, Committee on Urban and Rural DevelopmentMember, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)Whip, CPI(M) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha1998-99 Member, Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the HouseMember, Committee on Communications and its Sub- Committee “C”—Ministry of Information and BroadcastingMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1999-2000 Member, Committee on Communications2000-2004 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development
More Information :
Social And Cultural Activities
Working in Co-operative sector; President, (i) Weavers Society, Theru Mambalam, Payyanur; and (ii) Payyanur Co-operative Hospital Society Ltd.; Chairman, Co-operative Spinning Mill, Kannur, 1987-89; Member, (i) Kasturba Memorial Reading Room, Payyanur; and (ii) A.K.G. Memorial Kala Samithi, Payyanur
Special Interests
Reading Kalidasa’s Sanskrit Kavya and Malayalam novels, especially M.T’s novels, poems of vallathol and Kumaranasan; Marxian classics and books by and on E.M.S. Namboodripad
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading
Other Information
Director, A.K.G. Smaraka Memorial Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.; Kannur, Kerala; Member, (i) Kisan Sabha, District Committee, Kannur; (ii) Telecom Committee, Kerala; (iii) Telecom Circle Committee, Kannur; (iv) Zonal Railways Users Consultative Committee (Z.R.U.C.C.), Southern Railway, 1998-99; and (v) Konkan Railway Users Consultative Committee, 1999
