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'''Vaikom Viswan''' is a politician from the State of [[Kerala]] in India. He was the Convener of [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|Left Democratic Front]] (LDF) in Kerala and member of the [[Central Committee]] of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (CPIM).<ref name="conv">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/22/stories/2006052210640100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827134025/http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/22/stories/2006052210640100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 August 2006|title=Vaikom Viswan is LDF convener|date=22 May 2006|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=26 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="centcomm">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/02/03/stories/2009020353480400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207083107/http://hindu.com/2009/02/03/stories/2009020353480400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2009|title=UDF spreads canards|date=3 February 2009|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=26 January 2010}}</ref>

==Early life==

He was born on 28 October 1939 in [[Vadayar]] village, Bhoothapuyam Amsham of Thalayolaparambu Panchayath, Vaikom in [[Kottayam district]], in an ordinary family to Padmanabhan Nair and Karthyayani Amma. He is married to Prof. Geetha and has two children-Nisha and Naveen.<ref name="legislators">{{cite book|title=Legislators of Kerala|publisher=Sectetariat of kerala Legislature|pages=266|url=http://niyamasabha.org/codes/legislatorsupto2006.pdf}}</ref>

==Political career==

Vaikom Viswan entered politics as an activist of Student Federation (SF), which is the precursor of [[Students' Federation of India]] (SFI). He has joined the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1957. He was President and then Secretary of the Kerala Student's Federation (KSF) and also served as the president of Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF). He was in the forefront in taking up the famous Naxal Rajan agitation throughout Kerala during the emergency. Vaikom Viswan was subjected to brutal attacks from members of the Community Party of India during the [[1964 split in the Communist Party of India|split in 1964]]. He was also severely beaten by police authorities in many occasions during the early years of his political struggle and student protests. In 1978, he was elected to the State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He got elected to the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]] in 1980 from [[Ettumanoor]] Constituency in [[Kottayam District]] of [[Kerala State]]. He held the position of the District Committee Secretary of CPI (M), [[Kottayam]] district for about 20 years. In 2005, he was elected to the State Secretariat of CPI (M) in [[Kerala]]. In 2009 he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI (M).

==Positions held==
*State President and Secretary of Kerala Student's Federation and Vice President of Kerala State Youth Federation (KSYF).
*Elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1980.
*Member of State Committee of the CPI(M)<ref name="legislators"/>
*Member of State secretariate of CPI(M)
*Member of the Central Committee of the CPI(M) since 2009.
*Convener of LDF

==References==
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[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Kerala]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1939 births]]
[[Category:People from Vaikom]]
[[Category:Members of the Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Politicians from Kottayam]]

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