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	'''Vadakkoot Viswanatha Menon''' (15 January 1927<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/niyamasabha/viswanatha_menon.php \|title=Kerala State - Everything about Kerala \|website=www.stateofkerala.in \|language=en \|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> – 3 May 2019<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/former-kerala-finance-minister-v-viswanatha-menon-passes-away/cid/1689877 \|title=Former Kerala Finance Minister V Viswanatha Menon passes away \|date=2019-05-03 \|website=www.telegraphindia.com \|language=en \|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>) was a Communist leader and former minister in the southern state of [[Kerala]] in India. He also served as a member in the Indian Parliament.		'''Vadakkoot Viswanatha Menon''' (15 January 1927<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/niyamasabha/viswanatha_menon.php \|title=Kerala State - Everything about Kerala \|website=www.stateofkerala.in \|language=en \|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> – 3 May 2019<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/former-kerala-finance-minister-v-viswanatha-menon-passes-away/cid/1689877 \|title=Former Kerala Finance Minister V Viswanatha Menon passes away \|date=2019-05-03 \|website=www.telegraphindia.com \|language=en \|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>) was a Communist leader and former minister in the southern state of [[Kerala]] in India. He also served as a member in the Indian Parliament.
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'''Vadakkoot Viswanatha Menon''' (15 January 1927<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stateofkerala.in/niyamasabha/viswanatha_menon.php |title=Kerala State - Everything about Kerala |website=www.stateofkerala.in |language=en |access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref> – 3 May 2019<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/former-kerala-finance-minister-v-viswanatha-menon-passes-away/cid/1689877 |title=Former Kerala Finance Minister V Viswanatha Menon passes away |date=2019-05-03 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |language=en |access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref>) was a Communist leader and former minister in the southern state of [[Kerala]] in India. He also served as a member in the Indian Parliament.

== Early life ==
Viswanatha Menon was born in [[Kochi]] as the son of Narayana Menon, a lawyer, and Vadakkoot Lakshmikkuttiyamma. His father belonged to Ambady, a famous Nair family of Cochin.

He was a political activist in his youth, accused in the Communist attack on the [[Edappally]] police station. He was a leader of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in Kerala. Starting his career as a student activist in the [[Indian independence movement]] in his alma mater Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, he became popularly known as Ambady Viswam among his peers, seniors and near ones.

Menon was one of the popular youth leaders in Kochi at that time, owing to his opinions and actions against the ruling elite. A follower of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] since childhood, he was inclined towards communism during his student days due to the influence of prominent personalities around him, including his cousin A.K. Damodaran, former Indian Administrative Service official.

== Career ==
V. Viswanatha Menon was one of the earliest members of the undivided [[Communist Party of India]] in Kochi and played an essential role in building its base during the colonial and post-colonial period of the 1940s and early 1950s. Having sacrificed his aristocratic lifestyle at his affluent family, he worked among the party ranks against the exploitation of the oppressed classes.

The caste system left the less fortunate castes never achieving equal treatment. This continuing injustice inspired Menon to adopt [[Socialism]] and later on [[Democracy]], as a means of addressing these ills.

He was a two-time Member of Parliament representing CPI and later the CPI(M). He served as Finance Minister in the 1987 [[E.K. Nayanar]]-led Left Democratic Front Government. He once held the record of having presented the lengthiest Budget speech in the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]].

He served as trade union president in FACT for 12 years, and in Indal for 14 years. He also led a Cochin Port union.

During early 2000s, he distanced himself from CPI(M) due to difference of opinion on party policies. He contested from Ernakulam constituency to Lok Sabha with support from [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://m.rediff.com/%0D%0Anews/2003/sep/05iype.htm |title=CPM suffocated me: Viswanatha Menon |last=Iype |first=George |date=5 September 2003 |website=rediff.com}}</ref> and a rebel CPI(M) splinter group<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/2003/09/03/stories/2003090309430400.htm |title=Viswanatha Menon in the fray |date=3 September 2003 |website=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2019-05-04}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> in 2004 and was defeated by Dr. Sebastian Paul.

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