Pinarayi Vijayan
| Pinarayi Vijayan | |
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| പിണറായി വിജയൻ | |
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| 12th Chief Minister of Kerala | |
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Assumed office 25 May 2016 |
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| Governor | P. Sathasivam |
| Preceded by | Oommen Chandy |
| Constituency | Dharmadom |
| Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
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Assumed office 24 March 2002 |
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| Minister of Electricity, Kerala state | |
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In office 20 May 1996 – 19 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | G. Karthikeyan |
| Succeeded by | S. Sharma |
| Minister of Co-operatives, Kerala state | |
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In office 20 May 1996 – 19 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | M. V. Raghavan |
| Succeeded by | S. Sharma |
| Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Committee | |
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In office 25 September 1998 – 23 February 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Chadayan Govindan |
| Succeeded by | Kodiyeri Balakrishnan |
| Minister of Home Affairs, Kerala state | |
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Assumed office 25 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ramesh Chennithala |
| Personal details | |
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24 May 1945 Pinarayi, Malabar district, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Political party |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 
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| Spouse(s) | Kamala |
| Children | Vivek Kiran Veena |
| Residence | Pinarayi, Kerala |
| Alma mater | Government Brennen College, Thalassery |
Pinarayi Vijayan (Malayalam: പിണറായി വിജയൻ;born 24 May 1945) is an Indian politician who has been Chief Minister of Kerala since 25 May 2016.
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 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 a poor family in Pinarayi in Malabar district (present-day Kannur District), as the youngest son of Koran and Kalyani. 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 completed his degree course from the same college.
Pinarayi Vijayan entered politics through student union activities at Govt Brennen College, Thalassery and eventually joined the Communist Party in 1964. Vijayan became Kannur district secretary of the Kerala Students Federation (KSF), which later became the Students Federation of India (SFI). He went on to become the state secretary and subsequently the state president of KSF. He then moved on to Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF), which later became the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI). He became the president of the state committee. During that period, when communists in Kerala were organising the political activities from different hide-outs, Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and a half years.
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