| Veliyam Bharghavan | |
| Birth Name: | Krishnan Bharghavan |
| Office: | Secretary of the Communist Party of India Kerala State Council |
| Predecessor: | P. K. Vasudevan Nair |
| Successor: | C. K. Chandrappan |
| Office1: | Member of legislative assembly |
| Term Start1: | 1960 |
| Term End1: | 1964 |
| Term Start2: | 1957 |
| Term End2: | 1959 |
| Constituency2: | Chadayamangalam |
| Predecessor2: | Established |
| Successor2: | D. D. Potti |
| Birth Date: | 5 May 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Veliyam, Kottarakkara Taluk, Kollam, Kerala |
| Death Place: | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Residence: | House No.42, Vrindavan Housing Colony, Pattom P.O., Thiruvananthapuram |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Party: | Communist Party of India |
| Alma Mater: | Schooling at Sanskrit school Velyam, and English School Kottarakkara, SN College |
| Spouse: | Suneethi |
| Children: | One Daughter |
Veliyam Bharghavan (Malayalam: വെളിയം ഭാർഗവൻ; May 1928 – 18 September 2013) was a Communist leader from the Kerala, India.[1] He was the state Secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) from 1998 to 2010. In 2010 he retired from that position due to his health issues. He hails from Veliyam village of Kollam district. He was an advocate of a merger between CPI and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).[2] [3] [4] He was a member of the first Legislative Assembly of Kerala, winning the 1957 and 1960(interim) assembly elections from the Chadayamangalam Constituency.[5] [6] He died on 18 September 2013 aged 85 due to respiratory and cardiac problems.