Pandalam Sudhakaran

Pandalam Sudhakaran Ex. MLA
Personal details
Born	(1955-11-22) 22 November 1955 (age 69) Pandalam

Pandalam Sudhakaran (born 22 November 1955, in Pandalam, Kerala, India) is an Indian politician who belongs to Indian National Congress party. He became elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1982 as Congress party candidate from Wandoor Constituency. He got elected again in 1982, '87 and '91 from the same constituency.

Political positions held

• 1978–1982 Kerala Students Union Vice President, General Secretary
• 1982–1989 Youth Congress Vice President,[1] General Secretary
• 1982–1996 Member, Kerala Legislative Assembly (Wandoor)
• 1989–1992 Youth Congress State President[2]
• 1987–1991 Whip, Congress Legislative Party
• 1991–1996 Minister for Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes,[3] Sports[4] and Youth Affairs, CADA in K. Karunakaran Govt.
• 1995–1996 Minister Excise[5] and Sc/ST, Backward Community in A K Antony Govt.

He was a member of the Gandhiji University Syndicate, Calicut University Senate, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) executive, ^[citation needed] AICC, Trivandrum Doordarshan Kendra Advisory Board. He was a Jury member of Kerala state film award committee. He was director of Kerala State Film Development Corporation. KPCC General Secretary,[6] Chairman Kerala Tourism Development Corporation (KTDC),[7] Director of JaiHind TV, and Vice Chairman of the Malayalam Cine technicians Association (MACTA), Executive Board Member of Kerala Kalamandalam, Spokesman of KPCC (from 2013 onwards).

References

1. "India Today Online". India Today. 13 (23): 41. 1988. ISSN 0254-8399.
2. Lal, Shiv (1991). 1991 electoral politics, sectarian or dynastic, Volume 1. Election Archives. p. 139. ISBN 978-81-7051-077-2.
3. Documentation on women & violence, Volume 3. Streevani. OCLC 489437296.
4. "Antony-Karunakaran burry the hutchet [sic]". The Times of India. 16 March 2004. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
5. Biju, M. R. (1997). Politics of democracy and decentralisation in India: a case study of Kerala. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 25. ISBN 978-81-7156-705-8.
6. "CPI(M) trying to create communal divide: KPCC". The Hindu. 11 October 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
7. "Withdraw suspensions: Karunakaran". The Hindu. 13 March 2005. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 19 February 2011.

• www.thehindu.com
• www.stateofkerala.in
• Pandalam Sudhakran website^[permanent dead link‍]
• Images from The Hindu^[permanent dead link‍]