Chittayam Gopakumar | |
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| Deputy Speaker,Kerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2021 (2021-06-01) | |
| Speaker | A. N. Shamseer |
| Preceded by | V. Sasi |
| Member of theKerala Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 1 June 2011 (2011-06-01) | |
| Chief Minister | Pinarayi Vijayan |
| Preceded by | Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan |
| Constituency | Adoor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1965-05-30)30 May 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party | Communist Party of India |
| Spouse | C. Sherlley Bai |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence(s) | Kottarakkara, Kollam |
Chittayam Gopakumar (born 30 May 1965) is an Indian politician who belongs to theCommunist Party of India. He got elected to theKerala Legislative Assembly for the first time in2011 as a candidate fromAdoor constituency inPathanamthitta District. He won again from the same constituency with a huge margin in2016. He is current Deputy Speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly.
He contested in the2019 Indian general election in Kerala as a candidate of theLDF fromMavelikara constituency and lost to theIndian National Congress candidateKodikkunnil Suresh.
He was born on 30 May 1965, as son of T. Gopalakrishnan and T. K. Devayani, at Chittayam inKollam District. He completed Pre-degree fromSt. Gregorios College, Kottarakkara but was not able to study further due to poor financial situation of his family. He is married to C. Sherlley Bai. They have two daughters, Anooja and Amrita.[1]
Chittayam Gopakumar entered politics throughAll India Students Federation (AISF), during his school days. He became the state committee member of AISF. He later joinedAll India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and started organising trade union movements. He became AITUC state working committee member. He was the state secretary of Kerala Kashuvandi Thozhilali Kendra Council (Kerala Cashew Workers central union), State President of Asha Workers Union and Kollam district president of Kerala State Karshaka Thozhilali Federation (BKMU). At 18 years age, he joinedCommunist Party of India (CPI) as a branch committee member. He is now the state council member of CPI.[2]
In 2011, CPI put him as a candidate from Adoor constituency, for the Kerala Legislative assembly election. He won the seat with a margin of 607 votes, by defeating the Congress candidatePandalam Sudhakaran.
During that period, he became the Chairman of the committee on Welfare of Backward class communities.
In 2016, he was again re-elected from the same constituency with a bigger margin of 25,460 votes, defeating Congress candidate K.K. Shaju.
In the 2019 Parliament election, he lost to Congress candidate and sitting MP Kodikkunnil Suresh from Mavelikara Loksabha constituency with a bigger margin of 61,138 votes.[7] In the 2021 Kerala legislative assembly elections he was re-elected again from the Adoor constituency by defeating the congress candidate M G Kannan with a margin of 2919 votes.[3][4]
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