Pinarayi Vijayan
Pinarayi Vijayan | |||||||||||||
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Chief Minister of Kerala | |||||||||||||
Assumed office 25 May 2016 | |||||||||||||
Governor | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Oommen Chandy | ||||||||||||
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Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||||||||||||
Assumed office 24 March 2002 | |||||||||||||
Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Kerala State Committee | |||||||||||||
In office 25 September 1998 – 23 February 2015 | |||||||||||||
Preceded by | Chadayan Govindan | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Kodiyeri Balakrishnan | ||||||||||||
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Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||||||||||||
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T. Kamala (m. 1979) | ||||||||||||
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Pinarayi Vijayan (Malayalam:
Personal life and education
Vijayan was born on 24 May 1945 in
He is married to Kamala Vijayan and has two children, daughter Veena Vijayan who is married to P. A. Mohammed Riyas and son Vivek Kiran Vijayan. His wife is a retired teacher.[12][13]
Political career
Early Political career (1964 - 1970)
Pinarayi Vijayan entered politics through student union activities at
Elected to Kerala Assembly (1970 - onwards)
At the age of 25, in
Electoral performance in Kerala Assembly
Year | Constituency | Opponent | Result | Margin |
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1970 | Kuthuparamba
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Thayath Raghavan (PSP) | Won | 743[14] |
1977 | Kuthuparamba
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Abdulkadar (RSP) | Won | 4,401[15] |
1991 | Kuthuparamba
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P. Ramakrishnan (INC) | Won | 12,960[16] |
1996 | Payyannur
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K. N. Kannoth (INC) | Won | 28,078[17] |
2016 | Dharmadom
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Mambaram Divakaran (INC) | Won | 36,905[18] |
2021 | Dharmadom
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C. Raghunathan (INC) | Won | 50,123[19] |
During Emergency (1975)
During the emergency rule, when communists in Kerala were organising the political activities from different hide-outs, many CPI(M) members and leaders including Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and a half years. He was arrested and tortured by police.[20] After his release, Pinarayi Vijayan reached the Kerala Legislative Assembly and made an impassionate speech against senior Congress leader K. Karunakaran holding up the blood-stained shirt he wore when in police custody, causing serious embarrassment to the then C. Achutha Menon government.[21]
Minister of Electricity (1996 - 1998)
In the 1996 assembly election, E. K. Nayanar led LDF won the election and Vijayan was appointed as Minister of Electricity. Under his ministry Kerala made a huge progress in the generation and distribution of electricity towards self-sufficiency.[22]
State Secretary of CPIM (Kerala) (1998 - 2016)
In 1998, he became the state secretary of the CPI(M), following the death of the incumbent Chadayan Govindan. He was elected to the Politburo of the CPI(M) in 2002.[23] After resigning the post as the Minister of Electricity in 1998, Vijayan assumed as state secretary of CPI(M) for 18 years. As the party has been declining in West Bengal, Tripura and rest of India, under his leadership CPI(M) saw the base of the party strengthening up in the State.[24] He led the party to a landslide victory in the 2004 Indian general election, 2006 Kerala assembly election,[25] 2014 Indian general election and 2016 Kerala assembly election.[26]
On 26 May 2007 the CPI(M) suspended Pinarayi Vijayan and V. S. Achuthanandan from the Politburo for their public remarks on each other. Pinarayi was reinstated into the Politburo later.[27]
Positions held
- 1964 - Member, CPIM Kerala
- 1965 - District secretary, Kerala Student's Federation (KSF), Kannur
- 1966 - State President, Kerala Student's Federation (KSF), Kerala
- 1968 - District secretary, Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF), Kannur
- 1969 - State President, Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF), Kerala
- 1970 - MLA Kuthuparamba (Term 1)
- 1971 - President, Kerala State Co-operative Bank
- 1972 - District Secretary, CPIM, Kannur
- 1977 - MLA Kuthuparamba (Term 2)
- 1978 - State committee member, CPIM Kerala
- 1988 - State secretariat member, CPIM Kerala
- 1991 - MLA Kuthuparamba (Term 3)
- 1996 - Kerala State.
- 1996 - MLA Payyanur (Term 4)
- 1998 - State secretary, CPIM Kerala
- 2002 - Member, Politburo of the CPIM
- 2016 - Chief Minister of Kerala(Term 1)
- 2016 - MLA Dharmadam (Term V)
- 2021 - Chief Minister of Kerala(Term 2)
- 2021 - MLA Dharmadam (Term VI)
Chief Minister
First term (2016-2021)
Following the
Main achievements
- In first of its kind in India, the Pinarayi Vijayan ministry introduced a yearly Progress Report to mark accountability and transparency of the ruling front.
- His ministry introduced four missions for building Nava Keralam, a project expected to have a transformational effect on Kerala in the long run. The missions include LIFE Mission, a project to solve the problems of all categories of people including the homeless and landless and those who could not complete their house construction after starting it. It completed more than 2 lakh homes for the homeless.[35] The Ardram Mission aimed at a total overhaul of the public health sector making it people friendly, affordable for the poorest, and a means to provide substantial state of the art infrastructure facilities. It extended super specialty facilities that was earlier limited to medical colleges, to district and taluk hospitals as well.[36][37] The Haritha Keralam Mission was a comprehensive project implemented to clear and remove waste from all the water bodies in Kerala; ponds, rivers, lakes and streams.[38] The mission was a participatory program on the lines of literacy mission, democratic decentralization and people's planning and it involved the removal of solid waste, removal of waste water and measures to increase the area of land under cultivation are being undertaken under this project.[38] The Education Mission, proposed comprehensive educational reforms including upgrading one thousand government schools into international standards during the first phase and steadily improved the infrastructure for the education in Kerala.[39] Kerala thereafter became the first fully digital state in the country in the field of public education, with the completion of the ‘hi-tech classroom and hi-tech lab’ projects in government-owned schools.[40]
- His ministry offered 1,03,361 title deeds for landless people, found 22,000 hectares for additional paddy cultivation, restored 17182 square kilometers of water bodies, distributed 8,500,000 free Handloom School Uniforms, built 45,000 high tech classrooms, ensured 341,293 new student enrollment in public schools and enlarged 5,000,000 sq.ft. as a newly built-up area for Information Technology.[41][42]
- Kerala became the first state in India to provide employment reservation in rail network (Kochi Metro) for transgender people.[43] His ministry also provided reservation for transgender students pursuing degrees in the Arts and Sciences in graduation and post graduation.[44]
- For the first time in India, an all-woman police squad called Pink Patrol was introduced in Kerala to ascertain the security of women and children in public places.[45][46]
- His government formed Loka Kerala Sabha to bring Malayali diaspora living around the globe under one platform.[47][48]
- His tenure saw Kerala becoming first fully electrified State and fully open-defecation-free State in India. The 'filament free state', a project to bring in affordable LED bulbs in all households in Kerala also received good public attention.[49]
- He launched Kerala Bank and Kerala Administrative Service.[50][51]
- He completed Kochi-Mangaluru natural gas pipeline, GAIL Pipeline project.[52][53]
- During his tenure, completion of Alappuzha Bypass and Kollam Bypass was done which was overdue since 1970s.
- Kerala ranked as Best Governed State by Public Affairs Index,[54] Excellence Award 2017 of Cops Today International.[55]
- Pinarayi Vijayan earned the title Crisis Manager, after handling Cyclone Ockhi in 2017, Nipah outbreak in 2018, two Kerala Floods in 2018 and 2019 and Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.[56]
Second term (2021–present)
Main achievements
- Vijayan inaugurated the Kochi Water Metro, India's first water metro system in 2021.[61] It is also described as possibly the largest electric boat metro transportation infrastructure being implemented in the world.[62]
- In 2023, his ministry introduced Mission 1000, an initiative to select 1,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and turn them into ventures with Rs 100 crore turnover in four years.
- Kerala Fiber Optic Network (K-FON) is a public-funded initiative by the Government of Kerala that aims to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to the whole Indian state of Kerala.[63] More than 20 lakh BPL families in the state are expected to get free internet access, according to the project.[64] The project was inaugurated on 5 June 2023 by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.[65]
- Kerala Startup Mission became one of the top 5 startup incubators in the world in 2023.[66]
- Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated[67] the regional conference of Loka Kerala Sabha, at Times Square in New York, on June 10.
- On the occasion of Pride Day, Pinarayi Vijayan government launched Pride Project to provide jobs for transgenders. This project is also a part of the Kerala government’s effort to give jobs to 2 million people by 2026.
- A state wide outreach programme Nava Kerala Sadas was organised by the government where the chief minister and Kerala Council of Ministers will be travelling through all assembly constituencies of the state.[68]
- On 1 January 2024, K-Smart app was launched for digital access to services of local body institutions and government services in Kerala.[69]
Awards and honours
- Pinarayi Vijayan was awarded Gandhidarshan award for best chief minister in 2018[70]
- The 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala in Baltimore, United States. Noted bio-medical scientist and co-founder of the institute Robert Gallo presented awards to the Chief Minister and the Health Minister of Kerala.[71]
Controversies
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Pinarayi Vijayan was one among the accused in Kerala's first political murder case, of that of Vadikkal Ramakrishnan who was killed by an axe on 28 April 1969. Though the court acquitted all the accused of lack of evidence, this has been used by various political opponents to portray the violent nature of CPI(M)-RSS conflicts in Kannur which has taken more than 200 lives of supporters from both factions.[72][73][74][citation needed]
The
On 16 February 2007 the airport security in
Kerala Public Service Commission row over temporary appointments and delay of appointments from rank lists to permanent posts.[92] Deep sea fishing controversy over deal between Kerala Industrial Development Corporation (KIDC) and EMCC International India Private Limited.[93][citation needed] Covid protocol violations.[94][citation needed] In 2020, Vijayan faced heat from various opposition parties after several members of the chief minister's office were accused in the 2020 Kerala gold smuggling case.</ref>[citation needed] "Kerala gold scam: Accused Swapna Suresh had links with CM Pinarayi Vijayan's office". Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.</ref> The suspended principal secretary of IT department Mr. M. Shivasankar was arrested in connection with the investigation of the Gold smuggling case.[95][citation needed]
In May 2021, the Kerala government planned to spend ₹98 lakh to renovate the CM's residence, and PWD granted the project to the Uralungal Society without inviting tenders.[96][citation needed]
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- Pinarayi Vijayan discusses the future of the left in India Archived 10 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Tehelka, Volume 12 Issue 17, Dated 25 April 2015.