• Member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  • Date of Birth: February 7, 1938
  • Married with three children
  • Educ. Qualification – BA, LLB – S.D. College Alappuzha and Law College Trivandrum and Ernakulam
  • Was General Secretary of the Kerala Socialist Youth Federation between 1968 and 1974
  • State Jt. Secretary, Kerala Kisan Sabha in 1974
  • Municipal Councilor between 1968 and 1979, Kayamkulam Municipal Town
  • Joined the Party in 1956, became branch secretary in 1959, area committee member in 1964
  • Dist. Committee member in 1968. Elected to Kerala State Committee of the CPI(M) in 1969. District Secretary of Alappuzha between 1980 and 1982. Elected to the State Secretariat in 1982.
  • Elected to the Central Committee in 1985 and to the Central Secretariat in 1989
  • Elected to the CPI(M) Polit Bureau in 1992
  • Member of the Rajya Sabha between 1991 and 2001
  • Finance Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha in 1989. General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha between 1995 and 1999.
  • President of the All India Kisan Sabha since 1999
  • Two books and many articles in Malayalam and English
  • Visited USSR, Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Vietnam, Romania, Bulgaria, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, UAE and Syria.