E. Chandrasekharan Nair

E. Chandrasekharan Nair (born 2 December 1928) is a former Minister of Kerala and leader of the Communist Party of India.

Shri. E. Chandrasekharan Nair, senior leader of CPI and co-operator, was born as the son of Shri. E. Easwara Pillai on 2 December 1928.

Having entered active politics at a young age, he had joined Students Congress while at Annamalai University, then joined Indian Socialist Party (ISP) and subsequently the Communist Party in 1952. A law graduate, he practiced as a lawyer till 1970.

A strong advocate of co-operative movement, he had a long association with the co-operative sector, especially in Kollam district. He was the President of Kollam District Co-operative Bank for more than 29 years and had the rare opportunity of getting elected as the Chairman of All India State Co-operative Bank Federation and the Vice-President of National Co-operative Union and member of the Central Committee of the International Co-operative Alliance and member of Agriculture Credit Board of RBI.

Shri. Chandrasekharan Nair became elected to the 1st Kerala Legislative Assembly (KLA) from Kottarakkara constituency, contesting as a Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate. He was elected also to 3rd KLA from Kottarakkara , as CPI candidate. However he resigned his membership on 1 February 1970, to make way for the election of Chief Minister C. Achutha Menon to KLA. He represented Chadayamangalam constituency in the 5th & 6th KLA. In 1987 he won from Pathanapuram.

In the Ministry headed by Shri.E. K. Nayanar, he was the Minister for Food, & Civil Supplies and Housing from 25 January 1980 to 20 October 1981. In addition to the portfolio of Food and Civil Supplies, he handled the portfolio of Animal Husbandry & Dairy Development from 2 April 1987 to 17 June 1991 in the Ministry headed by Shri. E.K. Nayanar. In the 10th KLA he represented Karunagappalli, and was the Minister for Food, Tourism & Law from 20 May 1996 to 13 May 2001.Also he take initiative to start a Government engineering college in Karunagappalli. As a result College of Engineering Karunagappally commonly known as CEK, starts functioning during the year 1999 under Institute of human resources development for electronics IHRDE (Now IHRD)

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