Portfolio: Overseas Indian Affairs Minister
Date of birth: June 4, 1937
Party: Indian National Congress
Vayalar Ravi is currently the Union Cabinet Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs. Ravi was born in Vayalar, Alappuzha District, Kerala. He was the Founder President of the Kerala Students' Union (KSU), the students' wing of Indian National Congress in Kerala.
He was elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1982, and he served as Home Minister of Kerala from 1982 to 1986 before resigning from that position due to a disagreement with Chief Minister K Karunakaran. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in July 1994 and again in April 2003.
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