MV Balakrishnan: With Long Stint In North Kerala Politics To Retrieve CPI(M) Stronghold (image: instagram.com/mv_balakrishnan_master)
MV Balakrishnan is a senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and a member of the party State Committee. In the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, MV Balakrishnan will contest in Kasaragod Parliamentary constituency. Popularly referred as “MV Balakrishnan Master”, he has given up his position as headmaster of Kovval AUP School to pursue his full-time as a dedicated party worker.
70 year-old MV Balakrishnan”s entry into politics was through the Kerala Socialist Youth Federation (KSYF), a socialist youth movement formed as the youth wing of the Communist Marxist Party (CMP). In 1984, he became a CPI(M) District Committee member, and from 1996 onwards, he became a District Secretariat member.
He held various positions in the Farmers Union, including state committee member, district secretary, and All India Working Committee member. He served as the Kayyur Cheemeni Grama Panchayat for 12 years and has also received the Best District Panchayat President Award. Aside from this, he held positions such as Khadi Board Vice Chairman and Kasaragod District Panchayat President. He was also the general secretary of the NREG Workers Union.
MV Balakrishnan”s family consists of his wife, Premavalli, and two children – MK Pratibha, and MK Praveena. Premavalli worked at Kilayikode Service Co-Operative Bank. MK Pratibha is a higher secondary school teacher at Chattanchal, and MK Praveena is a software engineer abroad.
By fielding MV Balakrishnan from Kasaragod, CPI(M) hopes that his long stint in the North Kerala politics will work in their favour. Meanwhile, veteran communist believe that this time as a party candidate he will be able to retrieve the constituency that lost to the Congress in the previous General elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Congress” Rajmohan Unnithan won Kasaragod seat, once communist party”s stronghold, by defeating CPI(M)”s KP Satheesh Chandran for a margin of 40,438 votes.
