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{{Short description|Indian Politician}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = C. K. Chandrappan
| image =CK_CHANDRAPPAN_DSC_0698.JPG
| caption = C. K. Chandrappan
| birth_date ={{Birth date|1935|11|10|df=y}}
| birth_place =[[Cherthala]], [[Alappuzha]], [[Kerala]]
| residence =[[Thiruvananthapuram]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2012|03|23|1935|11|10}}
| death_place =[[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Kerala]]
|office = Secretary of the [[Communist Party of India]] Kerala State Council
|term_start = 14 November 2010
|term_end = 22 March 2012
|predecessor = [[Veliyam Bhargavan]]
|successor = [[Pannyan Raveendran]]
| constituency_MP1= [[Thrissur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Thrissur]]
| majority1 =
| parliament1 = Indian
| term_start1 = 2004
| term_end1 = 2009
| predecessor1 = [[A. C. Jose]]
| successor1= [[P. C. Chacko]]
| constituency_MP2= [[Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kannur]]
| majority2 =
| parliament2 = Indian
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| term_end2 = 1980
| predecessor2 = [[A.K. Gopalan]]
| successor2= K. Kunhambu
| constituency_MP3= [[Thalassery]]
| majority3 =
| parliament3 = Indian
| term_start3 = 1971
| term_end3 = 1977
| party =[[Communist Party of India]] (CPI)
| religion =
| spouse = Bulu Roy Chowdhary
| children =
| website =
| footnotes =
}}

'''C. K. Chandrappan''' (10 November 1935 – 22 March 2012) was a politician from [[Kerala]], [[India]]. He was the Kerala state secretary of the [[Communist Party of India]] (CPI)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2362643.ece|title=The Hindu : States / Kerala : Hazare's detention denial of right to dissent: Chandrappan|date=16 August 2011|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=23 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908053022/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2362643.ece|archive-date=8 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the president of [[All India Kisan Sabha (Ajoy Bhavan)|All India Kisan Sabha]] at the time of his death. He was a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] of [[India]] representing the [[Thalassery (Lok Sabha constituency)]] from 1971 to 1977, [[Kannur (Lok Sabha constituency)]] from 1977 to 1980 and [[Thrissur (Lok Sabha constituency)]] from 2004 to 2009. Chandrappan served as Member of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Legislative Assembly of Kerala]] from 1991 to 1996 representing [[Cherthala (State Assembly constituency)|Chertala]].

==Early life==
Born on 10 November 1935 to C. K. Kumara Panicker and Ammukkutty in [[Muhamma]], [[Alappuzha district]] of Kerala state. He was the 3rd son of the couple. His father, C. K. Kumara Panicker, was a famous leader of CPI and was known as ''Vayalar Stalin''. Panicker was one of the frontline fighters in the [[Punnapra-Vayalar uprising]]. Chandrappan passed MA from [[University College Trivandrum|University College]], [[Thiruvananthapuram]].

==Political life==
Chandrappan started his political life when he was a student. He was an active member of leftist youth federations in the 1970s. He took part in the [[Goa liberation movement]] and was jailed as a political prisoner on various occasions in Delhi, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram.<ref>http://www.newageweekly.in/2012/03/comrade-c-k-chandrappan-is-no-more_24.html?m=1</ref>
He won 3 times in Loka Sabha Elections 1971 ([[Thalassery]]), 1977 ([[Kannur]]) and 2004 ([[Thrissur]]). In 1987 [[Vayalar Ravi]] defeated Chandrappan in [[Cherthala]] assembly constituency. In 1991 he defeated [[Vayalar Ravi]]. After that in 1996 [[A. K. Antony]] defeated Chandrappan.
He was the national president of [[All India Youth Federation|All India Youth Federation (AIYF)]] and [[All India Students Federation|All India Students Federation (AISF)]]. Also he was the Chairman of [[Kerala Tourism Development Corporation|KTDC]] and Managing Director of Prabhath Book House.

In November 2010 , he took over as [[Communist Party of India|Communist Party of India (CPI)]] State secretary from [[Veliyam Bhargavan]]. At that time he was the national president of Kisan Sabha and member of CPI national secretariat. In 11 February 2012 he was elected as state secretary at the state party congress held at Kollam.
He was adjudged the top performer by the National Social Watch, an [[Non-governmental organization|NGO]].
He attended the 25th Congress of Communist Party of Soviet Union in 1975, Bulgarian Communist Party Congress in 1981,Young Communist League in Moscow, World Youth Festival in Sofia, and World Food summit in 1994 at Rome.

He was the Editor of Youth Life a Journal in English, Yuva Vedi (Hindi) Krishikkaran Monthly in Malayalam and was the Chief Editor of Janayugom Daily.
[[File:ONV CPI STATE MEET 2012DSC 0127.A.JPG|thumb|right|[[O. N. V. Kurup]] and C. K. Chandrappan in CPI State meeting at Kollam in 2012]]

==Personal life==
Chandrappan was married to Bulu Roy Chodhary on 28 October 1978, a political activist from [[West Bengal]]. The couple did not have children.
His mother Ammukkutty belonged to the [[Cheerappanchira]] family mentioned in the tales of Sabarimala Ayyappan. Incidentally Chandrappan was the cousin of [[Susheela Gopalan]] who was also from the Cheerappanchira family.

==Death==
C. K. Chandrappan died in [[Thiruvananthapuram]] on 22 March 2012 at the age of 76, due to cancer.<ref>{{cite news|title=C. K. Chandrappan dead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece|access-date=22 March 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=22 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730032014/http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article3078541.ece|archive-date=30 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was cremated with full state honours at Valiya Chudukadu crematorium in [[Cherthala]] on the next day. His wife Bulu Roy Chowdhury died on 19 February 2016.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140116131841/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/lokaralpha.aspx?lsno=14 Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website]

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