Thomas Chandy

Thomas Chandy is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Kerala representing the Kuttanad constituency and a prominent business man based in Kuwait.

Thomas Chandy was born on 29 August 1947, one of the sons of V.C.Thomas and Aleyamma Thomas at Chenammkary. He has completed a diploma in Telecommunication Engineering from the Institute of Engineering Technology, Chennai. He is married to Mercy Chandy and has 1 son and 2 daughters.

He started his political career in the KSU and was later selected as the President of the KSU and Youth Congress in Kuttanad, in 1970. After re-entering politics actively, he aligned himself with the DIC(K) of which he was the lone MLA as a part of the UDF in the 2006 elections, which later merged with the NCP and then aligned with the LDF for the 2011 elections. Based on the declaration of assets filed at the time of the elections, he is the richest MLA in the assembly with assets of over 920 Million Indian rupees.

Thomas Chandy is a business man, and has interests in the fields of education and hospitality among others.

He is the Chairman of the United Indian School, Indian Public School and Indian Central School in Kuwait. He also runs a school in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Chandy also owns a controlling interest in the Lake Palace Resort, located on the Punamada Lake in Kerala

He is a very active social worker both in Kuwait as well as in Kerala. In Kuwait, he was recently involved with a waste disposal and cleanup campaign in a suburb mainly inhabited by expatriates from Kerala. He also intervened in the case of Indian nurses who were duped in a job racket which promised them jobs in government hospitals in Kuwait.

Thomas Chandy is the chairman of the Daveedputhra Charitable Society, which has been involved in building houses for over 5000 families, providing sanitation facilities, health care and educational assistance, and other services.