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Dr. Thomas Issac

Constituency :    Mararikulam

Residential Address : Rose House, Vazhuthacaud, Thiruvananthapuram.

Phone Numbers : 2333849, 2333772
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Email: minister-finance at kerala.gov.in



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P R O F I L E

 
Son of Shri. T. P. Mathew and Smt. Saramma Mathew
Born at Kottappuram near Kodunagalloor on 26th September, 1952; Ph. D in Economics; Economist and Political Worker.
 
Started Political activities while a student; Vehemently participated in the activities of SFI from 1971; was SFI office bearer of Ernakulam Maharajas College Union  (1973-74); SFI Ernakulam District President (1974-80); SFI State Committee; Senior activities of Kerala Sasthra Sahitya Parishad from 1977; Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram; was State Planning Board Member from 1996 to 2001.  

Published many articles on Economics, Planning and Politics in the leading Regional, National and International periodicals and has also contributed many papers in many books.  Delivered lectures and presented papers in State, National and International Conferences/ Seminars.
 
Published many books in Malayalam and English.  Malayalam Books are (1) The Withering Coconut, (2) Political Economy of Poverty, (3) Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World, (4) ABC of Political Economy, (5) The World Bank and IMF, (6) Kerala, Land and People [won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award], (7) Science and Revolution, (8) Political Economy of Surrender, (9) Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice, Politics of Peoples Planning, (10) Hidden Folios of Liberation Struggle, (11) How Mirages form- Experience of Kanjikuzhy? (12) Global Crisis and Globalisation (13) Financial Relations : Centre and Kerala, (14) Manufacturing Fake Consent - Media Criticism 2000-2009.  English Books are : (1) Democracy at work in an Indian Industrial Co-operative : the story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi (with Richard W. Franke and Pyaralal Raghavan)  (2) Modernisation and Employment : The Coir Industry in Kerala (with R. A. Van Stuijvenberg and K. N. Nair), (3) Local Democracy and Development : Peoples Campaign for Decentralised Planning in Kerala ( with Richard W. Franke -  English and Spanish editions). Ph. D Thesis is " Class Struggle and Industrial Structure : A Study of Coir Weaving Industry in Kerala, 1859 -  1980".

Previously elected to KLA in 2001

Party: CPI (M)
 
Languages known : Malayalam and English
Travels Abroad : China, USA, UK, Srilanka, South Africa, UAE, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Thailand and Sweden
Permanent address : A. K. G. Centre
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
 
 

V O T I N G   R E S U L T S

 
       

  Electorate : 1,78,438  

  Votes Polled : 1,41,456  

  Dr. Thomas Issac  [C.P.I(M)] : 75,994  

  Smt. Simmi Ros Bell John (I.N.C.) : 58,315  
  Shri Sanu Sudheendran  [J.D.(U)] : 4,893  
     
 
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