V. Sivankutty

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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = V Sivankutty
| image = V sivankutty.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = [[Second Vijayan ministry|Pinarayi Vijayan]]
| office = Minister for Education & Labour, [[Government of Kerala]]
| term_start = {{Start date|2021|05|20|df=yes}}
| term_end =
| predecessor = {{Unbulleted_list|[[C. Raveendranath]]<br>(Minister for General Education)|[[T. P. Ramakrishnan]]<br>(Minister for Labour)}}
| successor =
| office1 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = {{Start date|2007||}}
| term_end1 = {{End date|2011||}}
| constituency1 = [[Thiruvananthapuram (State Assembly constituency)|Thiruvananthapuram East]]
| predecessor1 = B. Vijayakumar
| successor1 = ''Constituency abolished''
| office2 =
| term_start2 = {{Start date|2011||}}
| term_end2 = {{End date|2016||}}
| constituency2 = [[Nemom (State Assembly constituency)|Nemom]]
| predecessor2 = [[N. Sakthan]]
| successor2 = [[O. Rajagopal]]
| office3 =
| term_start3 = {{Start date|2021|05|24|df=yes}}
| term_end3 =
| constituency3 = [[Nemom (State Assembly constituency)|Nemom]]
| predecessor3 = [[O. Rajagopal]]
| successor3 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|11|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Cheruvakkal, [[Trivandrum]], [[Travancore–Cochin|State of Travancore–Cochin]]<br>(present day [[Kerala]]), India
| residence = [[Thiruvananthapuram]]
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| spouse = R. Parvathy Devi
| children = 1
| parents = {{Unbulleted_list|M. Vasudevan Pillai|P. Krishnamma}}
| relations = {{Unbulleted_list|[[P. Govinda Pillai]]|[[M. N. Govindan Nair]]|[[P. K. Vasudevan Nair]]|[[V. Viswanatha Menon]]}}
| footnotes =
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}}

'''Vasudevan Sivankutty''' (born 10 November 1954) is an Indian politician, currently serving as the Minister for Education and Labour,<ref>https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/10f1c4c2-f98b-4600-9b2a-749f33bdb791</ref> Government of Kerala. He represents the [[Nemom (State Assembly constituency)|Nemom Constituency]] in the 15th [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]].

Sivankutty is a State Committee Member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in Kerala and the State Secretary of the [[Centre of Indian Trade Unions]] (CITU) Kerala, and the District President of CITU, Thiruvananthapuram.

==Personal life==
Sivankutty was born as the son of activist M. Vasudevan Pillai and P. Krishnamma, at Cheruvakkal, Thiruvananthapuram on 10 November 1954. He is a BA. LLB (course completed), and was educated at [[Sree Narayana College, Chempazhanthy]] and the [[Kerala Law Academy]], Thiruvananthapuram. He is the son-in-law of late communist ideologue [[P. Govinda Pillai]] and [[Kerala University]] professor M. J. Rajamma. He is also a relative of poet [[Sugathakumari]] and of former chief minister [[P. K. Vasudevan Nair]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

== Political career ==
Sivankutty entered politics through the [[Students Federation of India|Students' Federation of India]] (SFI) and has held positions such as its District President, State President, District Secretary, State Secretary and All India Joint Secretary. From SFI, he joined the [[Centre of Indian Trade Unions]] (CITU), and currently holds positions such as its State Secretary and District President.

He was the President of the erstwhile Ulloor Panchayat, the Mayor of [[Thiruvananthapuram Corporation]], the Joint Secretary of the All India Mayors’ Council, the MLA of Thiruvananthapuram East and then Nemom (2011 - 2016).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members - Kerala Legislature|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/13kla/members/v_sivankutty.htm|access-date=2021-05-25|website=www.niyamasabha.org}}</ref>

In the recently concluded Kerala Assembly Elections, he defeated BJP's [[Kummanam Rajasekharan]] and [[K. Muraleedharan]] to become the MLA of Nemom again (2021–Present). He is currently a Minister in the [[Pinarayi Vijayan]]-led LDF cabinet, handling portfolios Public Education and Labour.<ref>{{Cite web|last=May 18|first=Aswin J. Kumar / TNN /|last2=2021|last3=Ist|first3=22:03|title=Kerala Ministers 2021: V Sivankutty becomes second corp mayor to turn minister {{!}} Thiruvananthapuram News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/thiruvananthapuram-v-sivankutty-becomes-second-corp-mayor-to-turn-minister/articleshow/82744889.cms|access-date=2021-05-23|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> The other departments under him right now are Literacy Movement, Employment and Training, Skills, Rehabilitation, Factories and Boilers, Insurance Medical Service, Industrial Tribunals, and Labour Courts.

==Personal life==
He is married to women's rights activist and [[Kerala Public Service Commission]] (PSC) member R. Parvathi Devi. They have one son.<ref>{{Cite web|title=തലസ്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ ജനകീയ മുഖമായി വി ശിവൻകുട്ടി|url=https://www.deshabhimani.com/special/v-sivankutty/944094|access-date=2021-05-25|website=Deshabhimani|language=ml}}</ref>

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