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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Anoop Jacob
| residence = Thirumarady, Piravom
| native_name = അനൂപ് ജേക്കബ്
‍| image = Anoop jacob.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1977|12|16}}
| death_date =
| birth_place =
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = {{Start date|2012|03|23|df=yes}}
| predecessor1 = [[T. M. Jacob]]
| successor1 =
| constituency1 = [[Piravom (State Assembly constituency)|Piravom]]
| office2 = Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, [[Government of Kerala]]
| term_start2 = {{Start date|2012|04|12|df=yes}}
| term_end2 = {{End date|2016|05|20|df=yes}}
| predecessor2 = [[T. M. Jacob]]
| successor2 = [[P. Thilothaman]]
| party = [[Kerala Congress (Jacob)]]
| alma_mater = {{Unbulleted_list|[[Mar Ivanios College|Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram]]|[[Kerala Law Academy|Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram]]}}
| parents = {{Unbulleted_list|[[T. M. Jacob]]|Annie Jacob}}
| spouse = {{Marriage|Anila Anoop|2002}}
| children = 2
| website = |
}}

'''Anoop Jacob''' (born 16 December 1977) is an Indian politician and a [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]] and Legislative Party leader of the [[Kerala Congress (Jacob)]], a constituent of the [[United Democratic Front (India)|UDF]] political alliance.<ref name=kaumudi>http://kaumudiglobal.com/innerpage1.php?newsid=11955</ref> He is the son of [[T. M. Jacob]] who founded the party in 1993. Anoop represents [[Piravom]] Constituency in [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]. He was elected to the Assembly following a by-election at Piravom in March 2012 which was necessitated due to the demise of his father, the incumbent of the constituency. He was elected in May 2016 also. In 2021 election Anoop elected from the same constituency with a highest majority.

==Education==

Anoop Jacob has a degree from [[Kerala Law Academy|Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram]] and is a practising lawyer at the [[Kerala High Court]]. Prior to that he completed his Bachelors in English Literature from [[Mar Ivanios College|Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Overwhelming voter turnout in Kerala. bypoll|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/overwhelming-voter-turnout-in-kerala-bypoll-1.996048|accessdate=21 March 2012|newspaper=Gulf News|date=18 March 2012}}</ref>

==Politics==

His first foray into politics was as a student at the [[Mar Ivanios College]] where he founded a unit of Kerala Students Congress (Jacob) in 1994. In 1997, he was elected as editor of the college union magazine, ''Prathibha'', which won the [[Malayala Manorama]] award for the state's best college magazine under his aegis. In 1998, he unsuccessfully contested for the post of Chairman of the Mar Ivanios College Union.<ref>{{cite news|title=It's official: Anoop is the UDF candidate|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-22/kochi/30428327_1_udf-campaign-kerala-congress-p-p-thankachan|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707051717/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-11-22/kochi/30428327_1_udf-campaign-kerala-congress-p-p-thankachan|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2012|accessdate=21 March 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=22 November 2011}}</ref>

Anoop became State President of the Kerala Students Congress (Jacob) in 2001, during which period the party registered its best performance yet by winning seats including General Secretary & Councillor in colleges like Mar Ivanios.<ref>{{cite news|title=The charge of the youth brigade|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/04/19/stories/2004041901760100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041130092942/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/04/19/stories/2004041901760100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 November 2004|accessdate=21 March 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=19 April 2004}}</ref> In 2008, he was elected as the State President of the Kerala Youth Front (Jacob), the youth wing of the Kerala Congress (Jacob) party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/kochi/anoop-jacob-contest-piravom-675 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-11-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324173941/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/kochi/anoop-jacob-contest-piravom-675 |archivedate=2012-03-24 }}</ref>

==Election to Kerala Legislative Assembly==

Anoop's father, who was the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, died on 30 October 2011. Following this, Anoop was nominated by the [[Kerala Congress (Jacob)]] and [[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]] to contest from the [[Piravom (State Assembly constituency)|Piravom assembly seat]] previously represented by his father. His father had lost the sitting seat in [[2006 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2006 elections]] and recaptured it in [[2011 Kerala Legislative Assembly election|2011 election]] by a margin of 157 votes.

Against Anoop Jacob, [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]{{endash}}led [[Left Democratic Front (Kerala)|LDF]] once again fielded M. J. Jacob, who had won against T. M. Jacob in 2006 and lost in 2011. Since the result of Piravom [[by-election]] mattered heavily to the ruling UDF who had a slender margin of 1 seat in the Legislative assembly over LDF, the constituency witnessed intense campaigning from both sides. Election was held on 17 March 2012 and results were announced on 21 March 2012. Anoop Jacob won the by-election by a significant margin of 12,071 votes. He was sworn in as an MLA on 22 March 2012. Anoop took oath as the Minister for Food & Civil Supplies on 12 April 2012 and occupied office in the North Block of the Kerala Secretariat; both portfolio & office last held by his departed father.<ref>{{cite web|title=Piravam election: Anoop Jacob (UDF) wins by 12071 votes|url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/piravam-election--anoop-jacob--udf--moves-to-win.html|publisher=Yahoo|accessdate=21 March 2012}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Anoop Jacob married Anila Geevarghese on 23 May 2002. She is working as Asst. Professor, BPC college, Piravom. They have a son and a daughter. Apart from politics, he is passionate about reading and poetry.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2012/aug/27/a-school-romance-400841.html | title=A school romance | date=27 August 2012 | first=Shevlin | last=Sebastian | newspaper=The New Indian Express | accessdate=6 June 2018 }}</ref>

==References==
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