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1962
1971
1971-73
1971-77
1973-75
1976-79
1977
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1980 onwards
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1989
5 Dec, 1989 to 10 Nov., 1990
5 Dec, 1989 to 21 April, 1990
1991
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Late Shri E. Kunhikannan Nair20th September, 1936
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)
Married on 16th November, 1977
Smt. Amrita Unnikrisnnan
Two daughters
Educated at Christian College, Madras, Presidency College, Madras and Government Law College, Madras
Journalist, Political & Social worker and writer
‘Padmalayam’, Pariankara, Calicut-673003 (Kerala) Tel. 74504
9, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi-110011. Tel. 3012118
Member, A.I.C.C.
Elected to Lok Sabha (Fifth)
Convenor, C.P.P. Standing Committee for External Affairs and Petroleum and Chemicals
Executive Member, C.P.P.
Member, Estimates Committee
General Secretary, C.P.P.
Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Sixth)
General Secretary, A.I.C.C. (Urs)
General Secretary A.I.C.C. (S)
Elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh) for the third time
Member, Public Accounts Committee
Leader, Congress(S) Party in Parliament
Elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth) for the fourth time
Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the fifth time
Union Minister, Surface Transport
Union Minister, Communications
Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the Sixth time
Worked in Indian National Congress since 1960; previously associated with the Socialist Party and Praja Socialist Party; Founder-Secretary Democratic Students Union, Madras, Young Socialist League and Samajwadi Yuvak Sabha; General Secretary and later President, NSUI; President Madras University Students Council; Founder Member, Central Steering Committee; National Convenor, Congress forum for Socialist Action; Member, Petitions Committee, Rules Committee, Committee on Papers laid on the Table, Business Advisory Committee, General Purposes Committee; Member, several Select Committees-Joint Committee on working of the Press Council, Joint Committee on Dowry Prohibition, Joint Committee on Taxation Laws, Joint Committee on Prasar Bharati Bill, Committee on Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election Bill, Joint Select Committee on Lok Pal Bill etc.; Executive Member, Indian Parliamentary Group; Member, Coffee Board, 1971-77; Central Small Industries Advisory Board, 1977-79, Indian National Commission for UNESCO (Sub-Committee on Communications), 1979; represented Indian Students and Youth in several International Seminars and conferences; Convenor, drafting group on ‘Peace and Security in Asia’
“Poetry for few or millions”, “Gandhi, Marx and Indian Socialism”, “Non-alignment and Indo-Soviet Treaty'”
Special correspondent “The Matribhumi” (Kerala) and many other Newspapers, contributed to National and International journals.
Art, poetry, literature, international affairs
Gardening
Widely travelled; Member, Indian Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Paris 1971, Parliamentary Delegations to U.K. 1973 to Switzerland 1975, Indian Delegation to U.N. General Assembly 1975-76; attended World Congress for Peace, Moscow, 1973; attended International Dialogue on Peace, Disarmanent and Development in Vienna, 1982; represented Government of India in the Presidential Installation Ceremonies in Chile, and Brazil, June, 1990; lectured lo many University audiences abroad on problems of contemporary India, visited Western Europe and West Asian countries to explain Bangladesh crisis in 1971. |
