Thiruvananthapuram: Adoor MLA Chittayam Gopakumar, the CPI legislator, to become Deputy Speaker of the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly.  The official announcement was made by Speaker M B Rajesh in the Assembly on Tuesday.

The deadline for filing nominations was till 12 noon on Monday and the election was scheduled to be held at 11 am on Tuesday. But none from the UDF filed the nomination.

Mr. Gopakumar, 55, was elected from Adoor Assembly constituency in the April 6 elections and had been a legislator since 2011 representing the Adoor constituency. He made his political entry through All Indian Students’ Federation (AISF), the students’ wing of CPI.

He later became the AISF State committee member. He served as the Kollam district secretary of the All Indian Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the labour wing of the CPI, and the Karshaka Thozhilali Union. He had worked as the chairman of Kerala Agriculture Workers’ Welfare Fund Board and president of the Kottarakkara grama panchayat.

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