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Constituency: Attingal
Residential Address:
Cliff
House, Nanthencode,
Thiruvananthapuram-695003
Phone
Numbers:
Direct: 2333849, 2333772
EPABX: 8193, 8082
Residence: 2317051, 2314853
Mail:
vakkompurushothaman@niyamasabha.org |
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Son of Late Shri.Bhanu
Panicker and Smt.Bhavani born on 12th
April, 1928; MA,
LLB.
Started political life
as an active worker of Students Congress in
1946;While a student became the member of Vakkom
Panchayatin 1953;Undergone imprisonment in
connection with the High Court Agitation in 1956 and
in connection with the agitation against the arrest
of Smt.Indira Gandhi in 1978; Served as Syndicate
Member, Kerala University; President, D.C.C.
Thiruvanthapuram; General Secretary, K.P.C.C; Vice
President,K.P.C.C; A.I.C.C. Member for 25 years.
Served as Minister for
Agriculture and Labour from September 1971 to March
1977;Minister for Health and Tourism from January
1980 to October 1981,Speaker Kerala Legsilative
Assembly from May 1982 to December 1984;Elected to
VIIIth and XIth LokSabha; Served as Chairman of the
Committee on Public Undertakings of the Parliament;
Chairman of the Committee on subordinate legislation
of the parliament; Chairman of the Consultative
Committee of Experts to the CIDP of Inter
Parliamentary Union, Geneva for 5 Years; Delegate to
the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held at
Bahamas in 1982,Nairobi in 1983,Isle of Man in 1984
and Australia in 2001;Lieutenant Governor of Andaman
and Nicobar Islands, for 3 years from March
1993.Leader of the Indian delegation to the Global
Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small
Island Developing States held in Barbadose in
1996;Elected to the Office of the Speaker, K.L.A for
the second time in June,2001.
Elected to K.L.A in
1970,1977,1980,1982 and 2001
Party:
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