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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian politician}}<br />
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{{infobox officeholder<br />
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly|Member]] of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| constituency1 = Sreekrishnapuram constituency<br />
| termstart1 = 1996<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1952|5|15}}<br />
| termend1 = 2006<br />
| children = 2<br />
| spouse = S. Surendran<br />
}}<br />
'''Girija Surendran''' (born 15 May 1952) is an Indian politician and former member of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Members - Kerala Legislature - Girija Surendran|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m178.htm|website=[[Niyamasabha]]}}</ref> She is a central committee member of the [[All India Democratic Women's Association]] and a Kerala state committee member from the [[Palakkad district]] committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=2018-02-26|title=Kodiyeri re-elected CPI(M) State secretary|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/kodiyeri-re-elected-cpim-state-secretary/article22854899.ece|access-date=2020-11-17|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Girija was born on 15 May 1952 to K. Krishnan and C. R. Savitri, and graduated with a college degree. She is married to S. Surendran with 2 daughters and is a resident of [[Palakkad]] city in the state of [[Kerala]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Political career ==<br />
In the [[1987 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]], Girija Surendran was nominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to contest as the party's candidate from the [[Palakkad (State Assembly constituency)|Palakkad constituency]]. She was defeated by the independent [[C. M. Sundaram]] while polling at 37.41% of the votes cast in her favor against 44.35% of the votes cast in Sundarama's favor.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerala 1987|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3756-kerala-1987/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> In the subsequent, [[1991 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]], she did not receive a nomination for candidacy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerala 1991|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3758-kerala-1991/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> However, in the following [[1996 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]], she was re-nominated by the party for a second time and from the constituency of Sreekrishnapuram in the Palakkad district on this occasion.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Kerala 1996|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3759-kerala-1996/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> Surendram emerged as the winning candidate against two term incumbent P. Balan of the [[Indian National Congress]] polling at 48.78% of the votes cast in her favor against 45.23% of the votes in Balan's favor.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Members - Kerala Legislature - P. Balan|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m074.htm|website=[[Niyamasabha]]}}</ref> In the [[2001 Kerala Legislative Assembly election]], she was re-nominated for candidacy on the seat and against the former [[member of parliament]], V. S. Vijayaraghavan of the Indian National Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|title=10th Lok Sabha - Members Bioprofile - Vijayaraghavan, Shri V.S.|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2950.htm|website=[[Lok Sabha]]}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Kerala 2001|url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3760-kerala-2001/|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref> She emerged as the winning candidate for a second term winning by a very thin margin of 21 votes, polling at 47.26% of the votes cast in her favor against 47.25% of the votes cast in Vijayaraghavan's favor.<ref name=":3" /> In 2018, she was elected to the state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kerala.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}<br />
{{Left Democratic Front (Kerala)}}<br />
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