M. K. Raghavan

Indian politician (born 1952)

M.K. Raghavan
Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 May 2009
Constituency	Kozhikode, Kerala

Personal details
Born	(1952-04-21) 21 April 1952 (age 72) Payyannur, Kannur
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Usha Kumari
Children	One son & one daughter
Residence(s)	Kozhikode, Kerala
Website	https://mkraghavan.in/

M. K. Raghavan (born 21 April 1952) is an Indian Politician. He is a Member of 17th Lok Sabha and Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Party.

He represents the Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency of Kerala. He belongs to Indian National Congress.^[1]^[2] He was the General Secretary of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee.^[3] He was born to Krishnan Nambiar and Janaki Amma on 21 April 1952 at Payyannur, Kerala.

Fielded as a strong candidate by the UDF in the LDF bastion of Kozhikode in the 2009 Lok Sabha election, M. K. Raghavan managed to wrangle victory riding on the general anti-CPI(M) wave in the state as well as the conscience votes of the CPI(M) partner Janata Dal (S) which was denied its sitting seat. However, it was noted that he won by a meagre 838 votes while three dummy candidates for his opponent P. A. Muhammad Riyas of CPI(M) bagged more votes than this winning margin.^[4] However, he cemented his victory with much better margins in the subsequent Lok Sabha elections in 2014 with 16,883 and 2019 with 85,225.

He has selected as Chairman, Divisional Railway Monitoring Committee of Palakkad Division.

References

^ "Kerala: UDF registers thumping win". The Hindu. 17 May 2009. Archived from the original on 21 May 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
^ "Congress ticket for Shashi Tharoor". The Hindu. 21 March 2009. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
^ "Move against Agreenco is political vendetta". The Hindu. 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
^ "M.K. Raghavan scrapes through in Kozhikode".

Preceded by

M.P. Veerendra Kumar

MP of Kozhikode
2009 – present

Incumbent

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