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| name = P. Raghavan<br />
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| office = Member of [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Udma Assembly constituency|Udma]]<br />
| term_start = 1991<br />
| term_end = 2001<br />
| predecessor = <br />
| successor = <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1945|10|15}}<br />
| birth_place = Munnad, [[South Canara]], [[Madras presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|07|05|1945|10|15}}<br />
| death_place = Munnad, Bedaduka, [[Kasaragod district]], [[Kerala]], India<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />
| parents = Cheviri Raman Nair <br/> Perail Maniamma<br />
| spouse = Kamala<br />
| children = 2<br />
| website = <br />
}}<br />
'''P. Raghavan''' was a [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] politician from [[Kerala]], India. From 1991 to 2001 he represented Uduma constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
P. Raghavan was born on 15 October 1945, the youngest of seven children of Cheviri Raman Nair and Perail Maniamma in Munnad, Bedaduka in present-day [[Kasargod district]].<ref name="Asianet news">{{Cite web |last=balu.kg |title=പി രാഘവന്; കാസര്കോട് ജില്ലയില് സഹകരണ-തൊഴിലാളി പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിന് വേണ്ടി നിലകൊണ്ട നേതാവ് |url=https://www.asianetnews.com/local-news/p-raghavan-cpim-co-operative-and-labor-movement-leader-in-kasaragod-district-rej8tm |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd |language=ml |archive-date=2022-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706082243/https://www.asianetnews.com/local-news/p-raghavan-cpim-co-operative-and-labor-movement-leader-in-kasaragod-district-rej8tm |url-status=live }}</ref> He was educated at Munnad AUP School, Iriyanni High School, Kasaragod Government College and Udupi Law College.<ref name="Asianet news"/> He was graduated in Economics and Law.<ref name="Asianet news"/> While a student at Munnad AUP School, he became active in student politics through KSF. He was later elected as KSF unit secretary.<ref name="Asianet news"/> While studying at Udupi Law College, he was the Secretary of the Student Federation Unit and at that time, he also served as KSF [[Kannur district|Kannur District]] Committee President and State Committee Member.<ref name="Asianet news"/><br />
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When he left the studies, he became active in KSYF and later elected KSYF's Kasaragod Taluk Secretary.<ref name="Asianet news"/> He was a volunteer in the Parliament March organized by KSYF with the slogan 'Job or Unemployment Wages' and was arrested for it and served a month's imprisonment in Tihar Jail.<ref name="Asianet news"/> He was arrested in December 1969 in the Thalappallam case, and was imprisoned in Kasaragod sub-jail for two weeks.<ref name="Asianet news"/> It was on the complaint of a resident of the area that the volunteer camp organized by the party Bandatukka and Thalappallat was misled by the police as a Naxalite camp.<ref name="Asianet news"/> After years of trial, the court dismissed the case.<ref name="Asianet news"/><br />
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In 1974, he started his professional career as a lawyer at the Kasaragod Bar.<ref name="Asianet news"/><br />
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===Personal life and death===<br />
He and his wife Kamala have two sons Ajith Kumar and Arun Raghavan.<ref name="Kerala kaumudi">{{Cite news | title=Uduma former MLA P Raghavan passes away |language=en-US |work=Keralakaumudi Daily |url=https://keralakaumudi.com/en/news/mobile/news.php?id=852910&u=uduma-former-mla-p-raghavan-passes-away |access-date=2022-07-06}}</ref> He died on 5 July 2022.<ref name="Kerala kaumudi"/><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Raghavan was active in politics since his school time. He started getting noticed in politics when he led the Mehboob bus workers' strike while he was a student at Kasaragod College.<ref name="madhyamam">{{Cite web |last=ലേഖകൻ |first=മാധ്യമം |date=2022-07-06 |title=പി. രാഘവൻ: സഹകരണമേഖലയിൽ കൈയൊപ്പ് ചാർത്തിയ നേതാവ് {{!}} Madhyamam |url=https://www.madhyamam.com/kerala/leader-who-signed-his-signature-in-the-field-of-cooperation-1039650 |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=www.madhyamam.com |language=ml |archive-date=2022-07-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710191651/https://www.madhyamam.com/kerala/leader-who-signed-his-signature-in-the-field-of-cooperation-1039650 |url-status=live }}</ref> He became a member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in 1964.<ref name="Deshabhimani">{{Cite web |title=സിപിഐ എം നേതാവും ഉദുമ മുൻ എംഎൽഎയുമായ പി രാഘവൻ അന്തരിച്ചു |url=https://www.deshabhimani.com/news/kerala/p-raghavan-passes-away/1030116 |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Deshabhimani |language=ml |archive-date=2022-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705221316/https://www.deshabhimani.com/news/kerala/p-raghavan-passes-away/1030116 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1984, when Kasaragod district came into existence, he was elected as a district committee member of CPI (M).<ref name="Deshabhimani"/> Then he was elected to the district secretariat of the CPI (M), and remained in the position for 37 years.<ref name="Asianet">{{Cite web |last=vipinvk |title=ഉദുമ മുന് എംഎല്എ പി രാഘവന് അന്തരിച്ചു |url=https://www.asianetnews.com/kerala-news/former-uduma-mla-p-raghavan-passes-away-reiw53 |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd |language=ml |archive-date=2022-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705050659/https://www.asianetnews.com/kerala-news/former-uduma-mla-p-raghavan-passes-away-reiw53 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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As a [[trade union]] activist, he was at the forefront of organizing workers in the unorganised sector in the Kasaragod region.<ref name="Deshabhimani"/> He was the District Secretary of CITU Kasaragod from 1989 to 2012.<ref name="Deshabhimani"/> He was also elected as Member of CITU National Executive Committee and State Secretary of CITU.<ref name="Deshabhimani"/> During his college days, Raghavan took up the incident of the killing of a bus conductor Varadaraja Pai.<ref name="madhyamam"/> The CITU Kasaragod district committee office, which was built when he was the general secretary of CITU, was made a Varadaraja Pai memorial.<ref name="madhyamam"/><br />
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Later, under the leadership of P. Raghavan, the District Motor Workers' Cooperative Society was established and buses were launched under the name 'Varadaraja Pai'.<ref name="madhyamam"/> Raghavan, who organized the motor workers and strengthened the union, became the district president of the union, the state president of the bus workers' federation and a member of the national working committee of the federation.<ref name="madhyamam"/><br />
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Under the leadership of Raghavan, more than twenty five cooperative ventures have been started in Kasaragod district.<ref name="Asianet"/> Raghavan saw the cooperative sector as the main way to grow CPI (M) and CITU in the district.<ref name="madhyamam"/> Co-operative societies like Kasaragod NGK Printing Society, Motor Workers Cooperative Society, Kasaragod People's Welfare Cooperative Society, Bedakum Clay Workers Cooperative Society, Kasaragod Ayurveda Cooperative Society, Fruit and Vegetable Cooperative Society, Kasaragod Dinesh [[Beedi]] Cooperative Society were founded by Raghavan.<ref name="madhyamam"/> At the time of death, he was the president of Kasaragod Education Cooperative society and Kasaragod People's Welfare Cooperative society.<ref name="madhyamam"/><br />
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==Electoral politics==<br />
From 1991 to 2001, P. Raghavan represented [[Udma Assembly constituency]] in 9th and 10th [[Kerala Legislative Assembly|Kerala legislative assemblies]] as a [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI (M)]] candidate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members - Kerala Legislature |url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m536.htm |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=www.niyamasabha.org |archive-date=2022-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122130632/http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m536.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He also served as the President of Bedaduka Panchayat for eight years.<ref name="Deshabhimani"/><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
*Second E Narayanan Memorial Award instituted by Thalassery Cooperative Rural Bank.<ref name="Deshabhimani"/><br />
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