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Who is Pinarayi Vijayan?

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Pinarayi Vijayan is an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). He served as the Kerala (now Keralam) state secretary of the CPI(M) from 1998 to 2015, and he has been a member of the Polit Bureau, the CPI(M)’s highest decision-making body, since 2002 and the chief minister of Kerala from 2016–26.