Twenty-five years after entering the Kerala Legislative Assembly as a Congress legislator from his house Devaragam in Paravur, V.S. Satheesan is all set to move to Cliff House, the official residence of the Chief Minister of Kerala.
The political distance that the Congress legislator covered between the two houses during the past quarter-century is also the political history of the party in the State. The past decades also saw the former KSU leader growing in stature and political clout both within the organisation and outside. However, it was the last five years as the Leader of Opposition in Kerala Legislature Assembly that shaped Mr. Satheesan as a leader of the masses with a pan-Kerala appeal.
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Like most of his contemporaries in the party, Mr. Satheesan too began his public life as an activist of the Kerala Students Union, the student wing of the Congress. He later became an office bearer of the National Students’ Union, the national forum of the students’ wing. He was also elected as the chairperson of the Mahatma Gandhi University Union.
During his early political years, Mr. Satheesan found himself in the company of the ‘I’ faction leaders in the State unit of the Congress, who had pledged their allegiance to the then party strongman K. Karunakaran. The opposing faction in the State unit of the Congress drew its name and inspiration from A.K. Antony.
