M. Swaraj

M Swaraj (born 1979) is an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and was a representative of Thripunithura constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was the former Kerala State Secretary of Students' Federation of India and Democratic Youth Federation of India.^[1]

Swaraj entered politics through student activism. He was the Chairman of the Calicut University Students' Union in 1999^[2] and rose to be the Secretary of SFI the Kerala State Committee in 2005.^[3] Later he became active in Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of CPI(M), and was made President of its Kerala Unit in 2011.^[4] He was elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly from Thripunithura assembly constituency in 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election by defeating Congress veteran K. Babu by a margin of 4,467 votes.^[5] But in 2021 Swaraj lost in a rematch to K.Babu by a margin of 1,232 votes.