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Vayalar Ravi

Indian politician (born 1937)

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Indian politician (born 1937)

Field	Value
name	Vayalar Ravi
image	Vayalar Ravi-crop.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Alappuzha, Travancore, British India
residence	Kerala
office1	Member of Rajya Sabha for Kerala
constituency1	Kerala
term_start1	22 April 2003
term_end1	23 April 2021
term_start2	2 July 1994
term_end2	1 July 2000
constituency2	Kerala
office3	Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs
primeminister3	Manmohan Singh
term_start3	29 January 2006
term_end3	26 May 2014
predecessor3	Oscar Fernandes
successor3	Sushma Swaraj
office4	Minister of Science and Technology
primeminister4	Manmohan Singh
term_start4	14 August 2012
term_end4	28 October 2012
predecessor4	Vilasrao Deshmukh
successor4	Jaipal Reddy
office5	Minister of Earth Sciences
primeminister5	Manmohan Singh
term_start5	14 August 2012
term_end5	28 October 2012
predecessor5	Vilasrao Deshmukh
successor5	Jaipal Reddy
office6	Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
primeminister6	Manmohan Singh
term_start6	14 August 2012
term_end6	28 October 2012
predecessor6	Vilasrao Deshmukh
successor6	K. H. Muniyappa
office7	Minister of Civil Aviation
primeminister7	Manmohan Singh
term_start7	19 January 2011
term_end7	18 December 2011
predecessor7	Praful Patel
successor7	Chaudhary Ajit Singh
office8	Minister of Home Affairs, Kerala
term_start8	24 May 1982
term_end8	24 May 1986
1blankname8	Chief Minister
1namedata8	K. Karunakaran
predecessor8	Oommen Chandy
successor8	K. Karunakaran
office9	Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
constituency9	Chirayinkil
term_start9	1971
term_end9	1980
predecessor9	K. Anirudhan
successor9	A. A. Rahim
office10	Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
constituency10	Cherthala
term_start10	1982
term_end10	1991
party	Indian National Congress
spouse	Mercy Ravi
source	http://www.keral.com/topstories/vayalar_ravi_minister.htm

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Vayalar Ravi (born 4 June 1937) is an Indian politician, who served as the Union Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs from 2006 to 2014. He is a former member of the Rajya Sabha.

Political life

Ravi was born in Vayalar, Cherthala, Alappuzha District, Kerala. He was the first General Secretary of the Kerala Students Union (KSU), the students' wing of Indian National Congress in Kerala. Ravi was elected to the 5th Lok Sabha in 1971 from Chirayinkil in Thiruvananthapuram district; he was re-elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977, serving until 1979. He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1982, and he served as Home Minister of Kerala from 1982 to 1986 before resigning from that position due to a disagreement with Chief Minister K. Karunakaran. He was re-elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1987, serving until 1991. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in July 1994 and again in April 2003. He became Union Cabinet Minister for Overseas Affairs on 30 January 2006.

After the Congress reelection in 2009, Ravi was re-inducted to the Cabinet for the second UPA government and retained the portfolio of Overseas Indian Affairs. He was given the additional responsibility of Ministry of Civil Aviation on 19 January 2011. He resigned from the office after Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh succeeded him.

Personal life

Vayalar Ravi was born to a prominent Ezhava family, as son of M.K Krishnan, a veteran freedom fighter and a social activist and Devaki Amma a congress party leader in Vayalar, Kerala. Ravi met his wife Mercy, while they were both active in the Kerala Students Union and he married her after a brief courtship. Mercy Ravi died on 5 September 2009 following a kidney failure, aged 64.

In February 2010, Vayalar Ravi along with Indian Ambassador Shamma Jain were injured in a car accident in Monrovia, Liberia, while on an official visit to African countries.

References

[http://rajyasabha.gov.in/kiosk/rsfinal3/whoswho/alpha_vy9.htm Biographical sketch at Rajya Sabha website].
[http://www.nriol.com/content/snippets/snippet1016.asp "New Minister for NRI affairs"], nriol.com.
link. (9 February 2008 .)
(5 September 2009). "Vayalar Ravi's wife passes away". [[The Times of India]].
(5 February 2010). "Vyalar Ravi out of danger after accident in Liberia". [[The Times of India]].

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