K. Pankajakshan is an India

India

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n politician from Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, who was the general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party

Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...

. Previously he used to belong to the Kerala Socialist Party

Kerala Socialist Party

Kerala Socialist Party was a political party founded under the leadership of Mathai Manjooran on September 21, 1947 at Kozhikode. It began as a small party, but its front-line leaders compelled the party deep into the public imagination....

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Pankajakshan represented the Trivandrum West constituency from 1971 for two terms and then Aryanad

Aryanad

Aryanad is a village in Thiruvananthapuram district in the state of Kerala, India.-Demographics: India census, Aryanad had a population of 27398 with 13037 males and 14361 females....

 constituency for three terms starting from 1980 to 1991 in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He defeated a Janata Party

Janata Party

The Janata Party was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the state of emergency imposed by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Indian National Congress...

 candidate in the 1980 election by 1286 votes, and again in 1982 and 1987. In 1991 he lost to Congress

Indian National Congress

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candidate G. Karthikeyan.

He has served as the Minister for Public Works (1979–82) and also as the Minister for Labour (1987–91). Pankajakshan currently leads the RSP as its All India General Secretary.