Other Positions Held and details:

Minister for Welfare of the Backward and Scheduled Communities from 26-05-2001 to 29-08-2004. 

Whip, Congress Legislature Party (1996-01); Member, Khadi & Village Industries Commission, Southern Railway Group D Recruitment Board, Calicut University Senate, K.P.C.C. Executive;  Chairman, Congress (I) SC and ST Cell; Secretary, Bharathiya Depressed Class League;  Served as Tutor, Paediatric Surgery in Medical College, Alappuzha (1973-75); Assistant Surgeon, Kerala Health Services (1975-80);  Medical Officer, Cochin Port Trust Hospital, Ernakulam (1983-87);  Later resigned from Government Service.