Entered politics while a student; an active worker of S.F.I. held positions in the organisation as Sree Kerala Varma College Unit Secretary, Chelakara Area Committee Secretary, Thrissur District Committee Member and Thrissur District Secretariat member. In DYFI worked as Chelakkara Block Committee Secretary and Thrissur District Executive Committee member; led students agitations against the Education Policy of the Government during 1982-87 and brutally assaulted by the police; actively involved in the problems of Agricultural labourers and organised them and later elected as the President K.S.K.T.U. Chelakara Area Committee; Also involved in the activities of Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad and Literacy movement. Elected to Thrissur District Council in 1991 from Vallathol Nagar Division; served as Minister for the Welfare of Backward and Scheduled Communities from 1996 to 2001. Now, member, D.Y.F.I. State Committee and CPI (M) Chelakara Area Committee.
Elected to KLA in 1996.