India, May 4 -- Vasudevan Sivankutty is a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and currently serves as Kerala's Minister for General Education and Labour. He lost the Nemom seat to BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

V. Sivankutty was born on 10 November 1954 in Cheruvakkal in Thiruvananthapuram district to M. Vasudevan Pillai, a local activist, and P. Krishnamma. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History from Sree Narayana College in 1976 and later obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Kerala Law Academy, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1983. He began his electoral journey in local governance, serving as the President of the Ulloor Panchayat in Thiruvananthapuram district. This role marked his first direct involvement in grassroo...