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	== Education ==		== Education ==
	V. Sivadasan completed his high school education from Pala Government High School, Kannur. He completed his pre degree from Pazhassi Raja N.S.S. College, Mattannur. He did his ~~both graduation and~~ Masters from [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|last=Sivadasan\|first=DR. V.\|title=Peasants Media Literature\|publisher=CURRENT BOOKS\|date=02-01-2017\|isbn=9788126475186\|location=Trivandrum\|pages=8}}</ref> He obtained Ph.D from Kannur University in 2010 for his doctoral thesis "Agrarian Problems and the Role of Media and Literature in Kerala with special reference to Socio-Economic Transformation 1934-1971".<ref name=":0" /> He was awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name=":0" />		V. Sivadasan completed his high school education from Pala Government High School, Kannur. He completed his pre degree from Pazhassi Raja N.S.S. College, Mattannur. He did his Masters from [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book\|last=Sivadasan\|first=DR. V.\|title=Peasants Media Literature\|publisher=CURRENT BOOKS\|date=02-01-2017\|isbn=9788126475186\|location=Trivandrum\|pages=8}}</ref> He obtained Ph.D from Kannur University in 2010 for his doctoral thesis "Agrarian Problems and the Role of Media and Literature in Kerala with special reference to Socio-Economic Transformation 1934-1971".<ref name=":0" /> He was awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name=":0" />

	== Political life ==		== Political life ==

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{{Short description|Indian politician from Kerala}}
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| office = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]
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| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| constituency = [[Kerala]]
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| birth_place = [[Iritty]], [[Kannur district|Kannur]], India
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'''V. Sivadasan''' (born 1979) is an Indian politician from [[Kerala]] state. Who is former All India President of [[Students' Federation of India]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Journalist John Brittas, ex-SFI chief V Sivadasan set to enter Rajya Sabha from Kerala|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2021/apr/16/journalist-john-brittas-ex-sfi-chief-v-sivadasan-set-to-enter-rajya-sabha-from-kerala-2290733.html|access-date=2021-04-16|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref> He is a [[Rajya Sabha]] member from Kerala.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=ജോൺ ബ്രിട്ടാസും ഡോ. വി ശിവദാസനും രാജ്യസഭയിലേക്ക്, സ്ഥാനാർത്ഥിത്വത്തിന് അംഗീകാരമായി|url=https://www.asianetnews.com/kerala-news/john-brittas-and-v-sivadasan-cpim-candidates-to-rajyasabha-qrnde6|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd|language=ml}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=ജോൺ ബ്രിട്ടാസും വി.ശിവദാസനും സിപിഎം രാജ്യസഭാ സ്ഥാനാർഥികള്‍|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/latest-news/2021/04/16/john-brittas-and-v-sivadasan-will-be-the-cpm-candidates-for-rajya-sabha-election.html|access-date=2021-04-16|website=ManoramaOnline|language=ml}}</ref> He is also the Independent Director of [[Kerala State Electricity Board]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kerala State Electricity Board Limited - Board of Directors|url=http://www.kseb.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=494&lang=en|access-date=2020-05-05|website=www.kseb.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-05-16|title=Lockdown heroes: How Kerala State Electricity Board employees rose up to the challenge|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/lockdown-heroes-how-kerala-state-electricity-board-employees-rose-challenge-124701|access-date=2020-10-09|website=The News Minute|language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
V. Sivadasan was born in 1979 to K. Narayanan and V. Madhavi in [[Iritty]], [[Kannur district|Kannur]]. His wife is Sahana and she belongs to Panoli, [[Kannur district|Kannur]].

== Education ==
V. Sivadasan completed his high school education from Pala Government High School, Kannur. He completed his pre degree from Pazhassi Raja N.S.S. College, Mattannur. He did his both graduation and Masters from [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Sivadasan|first=DR. V.|title=Peasants Media Literature|publisher=CURRENT BOOKS|date=02-01-2017|isbn=9788126475186|location=Trivandrum|pages=8}}</ref> He obtained Ph.D from Kannur University in 2010 for his doctoral thesis "Agrarian Problems and the Role of Media and Literature in Kerala with special reference to Socio-Economic Transformation 1934-1971".<ref name=":0" /> He was awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name=":0" />

== Political life ==
=== Student politics ===
V. Sivadasan entered politics through active participation in [[Balasangam|Balasangham]] and [[Students' Federation of India]]. He enrolled as a SFI member while studying at Pala government school, Kannur and became its unit secretary.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title="Graduate. If not, you fellas cannot continue in SFI."|url=http://bodhicommons.org/article/graduate-if-not-you-fellas-cannot-continue-in-sfi|access-date=2020-05-05|website=Bodhi Commons|language=en}}</ref> In 1994 January, the student activist Sivadasan studying in eight standard got arrested by police for defying the prohibitionary orders around Koothuparambu and participating in district conference.<ref name=":3" />

Sivadasan has held the responsibility of being the Area Secretary of SFI committee in Peravoor, and then both the presidentship and secretaryship of Kannur district committee. He became the University Union Chairman of Kannur University in 2006. In the same year, he was elected as the state vice president of SFI committee in Kerala. He later became the state joint secretary of the committee.

By 2008, V. Sivadasan entered the realm of national student politics by being the '''All India Joint Secretary''' of Students' Federation of India. In the 14th All India Conference of SFI which was held at [[Madurai]], Tamil Nadu in 2012, Sivadasan became the '''All India President''' of [[Students' Federation of India]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=SFI National President V Sivadasan: Latest News & Videos, Photos about SFI National President V Sivadasan {{!}} The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/SFI-National-President-V-Sivadasan|access-date=2020-05-05|website=The Economic Times}}</ref> In 2013, V Sivadasan along with [[M. B. Rajesh|M.B Rajesh]] faced police brutality in a protest action at national capital demanding the removal of [[P. J. Kurien|P J Kurien]] (then Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman) for his alleged involvement in the [[Suryanelli rape case]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CPI(M) MP alleges police assault during anti-Kurien protest - Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/cpi(m)-mp-alleges-police-assault-during-antikurien-protest/1077708/|access-date=2020-05-05|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref> After few months he along with his fellow comrades was jailed in [[Tihar Jail|Tihar Prison]], New Delhi for the SFI's protest demonstration against the Solar Scam in Kerala during UDF government.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Solar Scam Kerala – KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006|url=https://kafila.online/tag/solar-scam-kerala/|access-date=2021-04-16|website=KAFILA - COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006|language=en}}</ref> He faced brutal police atrocity after SFI launched protest action outside [[Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly|Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha]] against the fee hike in [[Himachal Pradesh University]] on March 18, 2015.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=2015-03-22|title='They treated us worse than animals': SFI activists in Shimla allege police brutality|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/they-treated-us-worse-than-animals-sfi-activists-in-shimla-allege-police-brutality/|access-date=2020-05-05|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]] demanded judicial probe on this matter and met Governor [[Kalyan Singh]] and submitted a memorandum.<ref name=":2" /> Under the leadership of Sivadasan, SFI initiated alliance with [[Ambedkar Students' Association|Ambedkar Students Association]] (ASA) in Pondicherry University.<ref>{{Cite web|last=kavya .m|date=2015-11-27|title=SFI-ASA sweeps Pondicherry University polls|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/151127/nation-current-affairs/article/sfi-asa-sweeps-pondicherry-university-polls|access-date=2020-10-09|website=Deccan Chronicle|language=en}}</ref>

Against the raid conducted by Delhi Police for alleged consumption of Beef in Kerala house, Sivadasan organised huge protest demonstrations in New Delhi and argued it as an attack on Indian Secularism.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-29|title=Attack on secularism: Protesters|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/508901/attack-secularism-protesters.html|access-date=2020-05-05|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref>

=== Party politics ===
Sivadasan is the state committee member of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in Kerala.<ref>{{Cite web|title=State Committee|url=http://www.cpimkerala.org/eng/state-committee-36.php?n=1|access-date=2020-05-05|website=CPIM Kerala}}</ref> He was entrusted with the responsibility of organising the celebration of Malayalam month of Karkidakkam for CPI(M).<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Emmanuel|first1=Gladwin EmmanuelGladwin|last2=Jul 11|first2=Mumbai Mirror {{!}} Updated|last3=2018|last4=Ist|first4=08:47|title=CPI (M) to observe Ramayana month in Kerala|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/news/india/cpi-m-to-observe-ramayana-month-in-kerala/articleshow/64934632.cms|access-date=2020-05-05|website=Mumbai Mirror|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-07-12|title=How 'Ramayana Month' Has Become CPM's Unlikely Tool in Ideological War Against BJP-RSS in Kerala|url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/how-ramayana-month-has-become-cpms-unlikely-tool-in-ideological-war-against-bjp-rss-in-kerala-1808923.html|access-date=2020-05-05|website=News18}}</ref> He argued that its the responsibility of secular people to protect the plurality of faith.<ref>{{Cite news|last=George|first=Varghese K.|date=2019-01-03|title=Religion vs religious nationalism|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/religion-vs-religious-nationalism/article25892798.ece|access-date=2020-10-09|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He is also the head of CPI(M) IT wing and education sub-committee in Kerala.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Paravath|first=Biju|title=CPM switches to digital mode to continue party activities amid COVID times|url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/cpm-switches-to-digital-mode-to-continue-party-activities-amid-covid-times-1.4798487|access-date=2020-10-09|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ഇഎംഎസും എകെജിയും മാനവമോചനവഴിയിലെ മഹനീയമാതൃക- വി. ശിവദാസന്‍|url=https://www.mathrubhumi.com/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-1.5539005|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref> He was the convenor of ‘Youth Summit on Future Kerala’, a two-day conclave being organised by the AKG Study and Research in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Staff Reporter|date=2021-02-27|title=Youth summit to generate ideas|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/youth-summit-to-generate-ideas/article33945684.ece|access-date=2021-04-16|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==== Member of Parliament ====
Sivadasan is a member of Rajya Sabha.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=RS Polls: CPM to field John Brittas, Dr V Sivadasan|url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/rs-polls-cpm-to-field-john-brittas-dr-v-sivadasan-kerala-1.5596171|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref> He was elected unopposed from Kerala on April 25, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=ThiruvananthapuramApril 25|first1=Vivek Rajagopal|last2=April 25|first2=2021UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2021 20:47|title=Kerala: V Sivadasan, John Brittas, PV Abdul Wahab elected to Rajya Sabha unopposed|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-v-sivadasan-john-brittas-pv-abdul-wahab-elected-to-rajya-sabha-unopposed-1794876-2021-04-25|access-date=2021-05-01|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

As a parliamentarian, V Sivadasan urged the HRD Minister to revoke Professor Gilbert Sebastian's suspension for calling the RSS a "Proto-fascist" organisation, and demanded to put an end to the attempts to constrain academic freedom.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bureau|first=NH Political|date=2021-05-22|title=Kerala professor calls RSS 'Proto-fascist,' suspended; Congress & CPI(M) demand revocation of suspension|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/kerala-professor-calls-rss-proto-fascist-suspended-congress-cpim-demand-revocation-of-suspension|access-date=2021-05-30|website=National Herald|language=en}}</ref> Protesting against the maladministration of Praful Patel in Lakshadweep, he said "reducing natives to second-class citizens in their own homeland is not acceptable."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Must Take Up Lakshadweep Natives’ Problem As One Of Our Own: V Sivadasan MP|url=https://www.deshabhimani.com/english/news/kerala/must-take-up-lakshadweep-natives-problem-as-one-of-our-own-v-sivadasan-mp/4218|access-date=2021-05-30|website=Deshabhimani|language=en}}</ref> He also staged protest on May 31, 2021 accusing the central government of trying to abolish the special rights of Lakshadweep.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CPI(M) to stage protest against Lakshadweep administrator's decisions on May 31|url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/cpi-m-to-stage-protest-against-lakshadweep-administrator-s-decisions-on-may-31-kerala-1.5705202|access-date=2021-05-30|website=Mathrubhumi|language=en}}</ref>

== Books ==
* ''Higher Education in India: Politics and Policies'' (Co-authored with Dr Abhilash Babu), [[Current Books (Malayalam)|''Current Books'']]: 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA: POLITICS AND POLICIES|url=https://dcbookstore.com/books/higher-education-in-india-politics-and-policies#:~:text=Though%20seldom%20engaged%20with%20critical,outcome%20of%20lack%20of%20interest.|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-16|website=dcbookstore.com}}</ref>
* ''Peasants Media Literature; Agrarian Problems in Kerala: Role of the Media and Literature (1934-1971)'', [[Current Books (Malayalam)|Current Books]]: 2017.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUNjzgEACAAJ|title=Peasants Media Literature: Agrarian Problms in Kerala: Role of the Media and Literature (1934-1971)|date=2017|publisher=Current Books|isbn=978-81-264-7518-6|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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