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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Ex. MLA]]
| name = Pandalam Sudhakaran
| native_name =
| image = Pandalamsudhakaran.jpg
| spouse = Ajitha Sudhakaran
| children =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1955|11|22}}
| birth_place = [[Pandalam]]
}}

'''Pandalam Sudhakaran''' (born 22 November 1955, in Pandalam, Kerala, India) is an Indian politician
belongs to [[Indian National Congress]] party. He became elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1982 as Congress party candidate from [[Wandoor]] Constituency. He got elected again in 1982, '87 and '91 from the same constituency.

== Personal life ==
He currently lives in [[Thiruvananthapuram]]. He is married to Ajitha Sudhakaran and is the father of two children.

==Political positions held==

*1978–1982 [[Kerala Students Union]] Vice President, General Secretary
*1982–1989 [[Indian Youth Congress|Youth Congress]] Vice President,<ref>{{cite journal |year=1988 |journal=[[India Today]] |volume=13 |issue=23 |pages=41 |issn=0254-8399 | title=India Today Online }}</ref> General Secretary
*1982–1996 Member, [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]] (Wandoor)
*1989–1992 Youth Congress State President<ref>{{cite book |title=1991 electoral politics, sectarian or dynastic, Volume 1 |last=Lal |first=Shiv |page=139 |year=1991 |publisher=Election Archives |isbn=978-81-7051-077-2 }}</ref>
*1987–1991 Whip, Congress Legislative Party
*1991–1996 Minister for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Documentation on women & violence, Volume 3 |publisher=Streevani |oclc=489437296 }}</ref> Sports<ref>{{cite news |title=Antony-Karunakaran {{sic|nolink=y|burry the hutchet|expected=bury the hatchet}} |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-03-16/thiruvananthapuram/28338083_1_antony-and-k-karunakaran-mukundapuram-rajya-sabha |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104205553/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-03-16/thiruvananthapuram/28338083_1_antony-and-k-karunakaran-mukundapuram-rajya-sabha |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=16 March 2004 |accessdate=19 February 2011 }}</ref> and Youth Affairs, CADA in K. Karunakaran Govt
*1995–1996 Minister Excise<ref>{{cite book |title=Politics of democracy and decentralisation in India: a case study of Kerala |last=Biju |first=M. R. |page=25 |year=1997 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7156-705-8 }}</ref> and Sc/ST, Backward Community in A K Antony Govt

He was a member of the Gandhiji University Syndicate, [[Calicut University]] Senate, [[Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee]] (KPCC) executive, {{citation needed|date=August 2012}} AICC, Trivandrum Doordarshan Kendra Advisory Board. He was a Jury member of Kerala state film award committee. He was director of [[Kerala State Film Development Corporation]]. [[KPCC]] General Secretary,<ref>{{cite news |title=CPI(M) trying to create communal divide: KPCC |url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/11/stories/2010101152260300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023703/http://www.hindu.com/2010/10/11/stories/2010101152260300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 June 2011 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=11 October 2010 |accessdate=19 February 2011 }}</ref> Chairman [[Kerala Tourism Development Corporation]] (KTDC),<ref>{{cite news |title=Withdraw suspensions: Karunakaran |url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/13/stories/2005031311870600.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210234917/http://hindu.com/2005/03/13/stories/2005031311870600.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 February 2009 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=13 March 2005 |accessdate=19 February 2011 }}</ref> Director of [[JaiHind TV]], and Vice Chairman of the Malayalam Cine technicians Association (MACTA), Executive Board Member of Kerala Kalamandalam, Spokesman of KPCC (from 2013 onwards)

==References==
{{reflist}}
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article1608736.ece www.thehindu.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20111206002125/http://www.stateofkerala.in/niyamasabha/PANDALAM%20SUDHAKARAN.php www.stateofkerala.in ]
*[http://pandalamsudhakaran.com/ Pandalam Sudhakran website]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*[http://www.thehinduimages.com/hindu/mySearch.do?command=hotlink&searchString=PANDALAM%20SUDHAKARAN Images from The Hindu]{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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[[Category:1955 births]]
[[Category:Politicians from Thiruvananthapuram]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala]]
[[Category:People from Pathanamthitta]]
[[Category:Malayalam-language lyricists]]
[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1982–1987]]
[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1987–1991]]
[[Category:Kerala MLAs 1991–1996]]

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