Mundakkal Madhavan Mani well known as "മണിയാശാന്" or "Maniyasan" is a CPI(M) leader and the former electricity minister of Kerala. He was born in Kidangoor,Travancore (present day Kottayam district). He is elected as MLA from Udumbanchola, Idukki. He was the former District Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist).
He contested from Udumbanchola constituency in 1996 but failed. He became the Idukki district secretary of CPI(M) in 1985 for the first time and was elected eight times consecutively to the post. He was elected from Udumbanchola constituency to Kerala assembly in May 2016. He became a cabinet minister in government led by Pinarayi Vijayan on November 2016
Mani was born in Kidangoor to Madhavan and Janaki. His family migrated to Idukki from Kidangoor when he was a child. He was only able to study until the fifth standard due to his family's poor financial situation. He went to St. Mary's School in Kidangoor.He joined Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the age of 21 in 1966. His works are mainly focussed on trade union works among the plantation labourers in Idukki .
In November 2012, he made a statement in which he said his party in the past eliminated many of their enemies easily. He said that they killed one of them by beating, another by stabbing and the last one by shooting. He was arrested following this statement.
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