Pinarayi Vijayan Profile
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Pinarayi Vijayan: The Leader Who Remade Kerala's Left
After he became Kerala's 12th chief minister in May 2016, Pinarayi Vijayan faced some of the hardest challenges of his political journey.
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Blunt And Effective: Pinarayi Vijayan Embodies The Best And Worst Of Kerala Politics
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was born around two decades after the Vaikkom Satyagraha into a Thiyya family - in northern Kerala, the Thiyyas are the traditional toddy tappers. He himself may have had little experience in the trade, but the tag, often a slur in Malayalam, stuck and came handy to rivals seeking a verbal stab at him.
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Pinarayi Vijayan: The Leader Who Remade Kerala's Left
After he became Kerala's 12th chief minister in May 2016, Pinarayi Vijayan faced some of the hardest challenges of his political journey.
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Blunt And Effective: Pinarayi Vijayan Embodies The Best And Worst Of Kerala Politics
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was born around two decades after the Vaikkom Satyagraha into a Thiyya family - in northern Kerala, the Thiyyas are the traditional toddy tappers. He himself may have had little experience in the trade, but the tag, often a slur in Malayalam, stuck and came handy to rivals seeking a verbal stab at him.
