E. Balanandan was a communist politician from the Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 State of India

India

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. He had been a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...

's (CPI(M)) politburo since 1978. Born in Sakthikulangara, Kollam District

Kollam district

-Climate:Kollam's temperature is almost steady throughout the year. The average temperature ranges from 25 to 32 degrees Celsius. Summer usually runs from March until May; the monsoon begins by June and ends by September. Kollam receives an annual average rainfall of around...

, he was the son of Raman and Eswary Balandan.

Balanandan initiated his political career in the Indian National Congress

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, but he later joined the Communist Party of India

Communist Party of India

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 in 1943, and then the CPI(M) in 1964.

From 1967 to 1977, he was a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly

Kerala Legislative Assembly

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. In 1980, he was elected for a four year term to the 7th Lok Sabha

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, the lower house of India's bicameral parliament

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 from Mukundapuram constituency

Mukundapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)

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. He was elected to the upper house, Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha

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 twice in 1988 and 1994.

Balanandan was the President of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions

Centre of Indian Trade Unions

Centre of Indian Trade Unions , CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of India . The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India...

and of the Electricity Employees' Federation of India.

Balanandan died on January 19, 2009 at a private hospital in Kochi in Kerala, where he was admitted due to respiratory illness. He had suffered from lung cancer for some time.