T. V. Rajesh should not be confused with M. B. Rajesh.
| T. V. Rajesh | |
| Birth Date: | 11 January 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Kalliasseri, Kannur, Kerala |
| Residence: | Kalliasseri |
| Constituency: | Kalliasseri |
| Office: | Member of Legislative Assembly, Kerala |
| Term Start: | 2011 |
| Term End: | 2021 |
| Party: | CPI(M) |
| Spouse: | T P Sheena |
| Children: | Diya |
| Successor: | M. Vijin |
T. V. Rajesh (born 11 January 1974) is an Indian politician from the state of Kerala, and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala.[1] He represented the Kalliasseri constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). Rajesh was the president of the DYFI Kerala state committee, and also a state committee member of the CPI(M).
T. V. Rajesh was born to Chandukutty and Madhavi at Kulapuram, Kannur district. He did his schooling in Cheruthazham High School and subsequently completed his pre-degree and bachelor's degree in Political Science from Payyanur College, Kannur. He completed his master's degree in law from Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram.
T. V. Rajesh entered into politics as a Students' Federation of India (SFI) activist. Later he moved onto Democratic Youth Federation of India and actively took part in various strikes and movements. He was the president of the DYFI Kerala state committee. His political activism saw him lead student struggles right from his days as a high school student. He has been part of many different struggles against various United Democratic Front governments in Kerala. His struggles have been brutally repressed in the past, which made him spend 87 days behind the bars.
He was elected as the state secretary of SFI in 2002 and as the National Joint Secretary in 2003. He was elected as the member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala from his constituency in May 2011 with a margin of nearly 30,000 votes. In 2012 Kerala state conference of CPI(M), he was elected as a member of the state committee of the party. He was re-elected from the same constituency in 2016 with a margin of more than 42,000 votes.
There were 1,77,121 registered voters in the constituency for the 2016 election.[2]
There were 1,57,384 registered voters in the constituency for the 2011 election.[3]