CITU Keralam State Conference ends, re-elects TP Ramakrishnan as President

TP Ramakrishnan | Photo credit: VISHNU PRATHAP

The 16th state conference of the Center of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which concluded here on Monday, re-elected TP Ramakrishnan as state president and KK Jayachandran as general secretary. V. Sivankutty will continue as State Treasurer, while KN Gopinath has been elected Assistant General Secretary.

The conference elected a 47-member panel of office bearers, a 190-member state committee and a 536-member state general council. According to the management, all office bearers were elected unanimously.

AK Balan, J. Mercy Kutty Amma and MV Jayarajan are among the 22 vice-presidents. The secretaries include KS Sunil Kumar, CK Harikrishnan and PP Chitharanjan among others. KK Divakaran, S. Sharma and KP Mary are the three invitees.

KK Jayachandran | Photo credit: VISHNU PRATHAP

Mr. Ramakrishnan was first elected as the President of CITU Keralam State in November 2023 after the death of the incumbent President Anathalavattom Anandan. Mr. Jayachandran, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) state committee member and state secretariat member from Idukki, replaces Elamaram Kareem, who was elected as the national general secretary of the union in January this year.

Organizational document

The conference, which began on November 6, adopted a new organizational document. A two-day workshop will be held in Thiruvananthapuram on December 31 and January 1 to initiate the implementation of the measures suggested in the document.

Addressing the media after his re-election, Mr Ramakrishnan said the CITU would launch a series of protests against what he called the United Democratic Front (UDF) government’s unilateral move to transfer employees of various government departments and state-owned public sector undertakings (PSUs) en masse.

“The conference also confirmed that class unity would be the best tool to fight the communal agenda propagated by the RSS with the support of the BJP government at the Centre,” he said.

Mr. Ramakrishnan also spoke of plans to line up Kerala workers for a massive march from Ramlila Maidan to Parliament on December 1, demanding repeal of labor laws.

The conference ended in the evening with a workers’ assembly. Leader of the Opposition Pinarayi Vijayan started the public rally. A total of 625 delegates representing 1,149 trade unions from the entire state took part in the conference.

Published – 9 Nov 2026 18:29 IST