Pinarayi - A brief Profile

Profile

Pinarayi Vijayan was born on 21st March 1944 in Pinarayi in Kannur district. Pinarayi Vijayan entered politics through student union activities and eventually joined the Communist Party in 1964. He was the President and Secretary of the Kerala Student's Federation (KSF) and also served as the President of Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF). During that period, when communists in Kerala were organising political activities from different hide-outs, Pinarayi Vijayan was imprisoned for one and half years. He was subjected to police brutalities during emergency. Later he was elected the President of the Kerala State co-operative Bank. 1970 witnessed his entry in to the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected in 1977, 1991 and 1996. He was the Minister for Electricity and Co-operatives in the E.K. Nayanar ministry from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he became the Party State Secretary. He was elected to the Polit Bureau of CPI (M) in 2002.

Pinarayi as Electricity Minister

Kerala state was going through a rough period with three and half hours of load shedding for domestic consumers and 95 per cent power cut for industries. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) was also crippled with financial crisis. In such a scenario, Pinarayi Vijayan became the electricity minister and by the time his term ended, the power generation in the state had increased by 1083.6 MW as against the previous UDF government’s achievement of a paltry 14 MW. The load shedding and power cut were totally withdrawn and Kerala could claim to be self-sufficient in power.

Protect and Protest...

Wake up…Comrades and Friends, the resting time is over. The anti-communist forces are ready for a war-like situation against the people’s democracy of Kerala. From 1957, several attempts have been made to scuttle the communist movement of Kerala. American Imperialists, Divisive forces, Communal Forces – all tried to destabilize the Marxist Leninist Movement of Kerala, but they miserably failed. But they have never retracted from their stand, looking for opportunities to attack communists.

For them, targeting and tarnishing Marxist leaders is the best way to weaken the Marxist movement. Now the CBI is used as a political tool to frame and malign the strongest leader of CPI(M), Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan. In company of a new generation of ‘sound byte journalists’ broking and braking news, the anti-CPM forces are trying to politically assassinate Pinarayi Vijayan. He is the one who never compromised with these disgruntled elements for short term gains. An orchestrated malicious and dubious campaign has been unleashed against Pinarayi ever since he took over the reins of the party in Kerala. But Pinarayi has emerged stronger than ever before much to the dismay of the gossipmongers and rumour mills in the politico-media spectrum.

The move to arraign Pinarayi in the SNC Lavlin case is yet another criminal conspiracy to finish him politically. But the political opponents, Congress- Muslim League-RSS combine will soon realize that their dreams shatter before their eyes. The party members, mass organizations’ workers, party sympathizers and loyalists are all up with the armoury of ideals to fight and defeat the smear campaign to demolish the Communist Movement of Kerala.

Pinarayi is the future of Communist Party of Kerala. He is the man to take this movement forward. Any attack on Pinarayi should be viewed as the attack on Communist Movement of Kerala. Let us all line up behind our beloved leader Pinarayi Vijayan and fight to the finish.

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