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V.N. Vasavan (born in 1954) is an Indian politician and is the District Committee Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for Kottayam district. Vasavan was a member of the Kerala Legislature for the constituency of Kottayam.
Political career
Vasavan entered in politics through student federation. Then he was district joint secretary of KSYF and DYFI. He became a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1974, elected as a District Committee Member in 1991, as District Secretariat Member in 1997 and as Kottayam District Secretary in the district conference held at Ettumanoor on 18 January 2015. .Vasavan is one of the State Committee members of CPIM Kerala.
He was a member of Pampady Grampanchayath, President Pampady Housing Cooperative Society, President of Kottayam District Cooperative Bank, Director of State Cooperative Bank, General Secretary Kerala Private Hospital employees Federation, syndicate Member Sree Shankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, and District President of CITU, Kottayam.
Vasavan contested the Kerala Legislature elections in Puthuppally in 1987 and 1991, and in Kottayam in 2006 and 2011. He was MLA for Kottayam between 2006 and 2011. Now Vasavan is the District Secretary of CPI(M), Kottayam District, State Committee Member of CPI(M),Director Board Member of RUBCO, General council and Working Committee member of CITU,President of the Navalokam cultural center, General Secretary Pampady Range Toddy Workers Union and President Captain Lakshmy Charitable Society.Vasavan is the Advisory Board Chairman of ABHAYAM CHARITABLE SOCIETY Kottayam.