M. P. Veerendra Kumar
Indian politician and writer (1937-2020)
Maniyankode Padmaprabha Veerendra Kumar (15 August 1937 — 28 May 2020) was an Indian politician, writer and journalist, Former Union Minister of state for Finance in Devegowda Ministry and Union Minister of state for Labour and Employment (Independent charge ), Parliamentary Affairs, Urban Development in Gujral Ministry. He was as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha and Representing the state of Kerala and member of the 14th Lok Sabha. During the period of 1987 Virendra kumar elected member of Kerala Legislative Assembly from Kalpetta Constituency. He was a member of the Loktantrik Janata Dal political party and president of the Kerala state branch of the party. He was also the chairman and managing director of the Malayalam daily newspaper Mathrubhumi.
Life
Veerendra Kumar was born on 22 July 1936 to Marudevi Avva and M. K. Padmaprabha Goudar, a leader of Socialist Party and former MLA, in Kalpetta. Veerendra Kumar belonged to a family with deep roots in the Jain community of Kerala. The eldest of their eight children, he had six younger sisters and a younger brother. After schooling in Kalpetta and Kozhikode, he did his master's in philosophy from the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College.
As a politician, he was treasurer and a national committee member of the former Samyukta Socialist Party, state secretary of the Kerala Unit of the Socialist Party, one of the all India secretaries of the former Socialist Party, convener of the Opposition Co-ordination Committee in Kerala, vice president of the former Janata Party, and its president.
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