Kodikunnil Suresh is an Indian politician and working president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). He was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour. He is a member of the seventeenth Lok Sabha representing Mavelikara in Kerala. He has been a member of Lok Sabha seven times. He is also the Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). Early life and education He was born in Kodikkunil, Thiruvananthapuram District to a poor family, as the youngest son of Kunjan and Thankamma. He did his graduation and passed his LL.B from Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. Political career He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1989 and thereafter in the 1991,1996, 1999 General Elections to the Lok Sabha from Adoor Constituency. He was defeated in the 1998, 2004 elections. He served as the member of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee and member of AICC. He won the general election to the Lok Sabha in 2009 defeating R. S. Anil of Communist Party of India with a margin of 48,048 votes. In 2014 he won the Lok Sabha elections defeating Chengara Surendran of Communist Party of India and is the present Member of Parliament from Mavelikkara constituency. He has been selected as working president of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on 19 September 2018. Controversies His victory in the 2009 election was declared void by the Kerala High Court over the allegation that his caste certificate was fake, and that he was a Christian. This verdict was later reversed by the Supreme Court. References Indian National Congress politicians from Kerala 1962 births Living people Malayali politicians Indian Christians India MPs 2009–2014 Lok Sabha members from Kerala India MPs 1989–1991 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2014–2019 People from Thiruvananthapuram district India MPs 2019–present Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram alumni