P. Raghavan

P. Raghavan was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician from Kerala, India. From 1991 to 2001 he represented Uduma constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly.

Biography P. Raghavan was born on 15 October 1945, the youngest of seven children of Cheviri Raman Nair and Perail Maniamma in Munnad, Bedaduka in present-day Kasargod district. He was educated at Munnad AUP School, Iriyanni High School, Kasaragod Government College and Udupi Law College. He died on 5 July 2022. He became a member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. In 1984, when Kasaragod district came into existence, he was elected as a district committee member of CPI (M).

As a trade union activist, he was at the forefront of organizing workers in the unorganised sector in the Kasaragod region. He also served as the President of Bedaduka Panchayat for eight years.

Awards and honours Second E Narayanan Memorial Award instituted by Thalassery Cooperative Rural Bank.