Pinarayi Vijayan

Pinarayi Vijayan

Pinarayi Vijayan (born 24 May 1945 in Pinarayi)[2] is an Indian politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala, serving since 25 May 2016.[3] A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he was the longest-serving secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) from 1998 to 2015. He also served in the government of Kerala as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operatives from 1996 to 1998. Vijayan won a seat in the May 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election as the CPI(M) candidate for Dharmadom constituency[4] and was selected as the leader of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and became the 12th Chief Minister of Kerala

Vijayan was born on 24 May 1945 in Pinarayi village of Malabar district in Madras Presidency, as the youngest son of Koran and Kalyani. He had 14 siblings of which only three survived. After graduating school, he worked as a handloom weaver for a year before joining for Pre–university course in the Government Brennen College, Thalassery. Subsequently, he earned B.A. Economics degree from the same college