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'''E. Balanandan''' (16 June 1924 &ndash; 19 January 2009<ref name=Keralaonline>[http://keralaonline.com/news/balanandan-dies_17603.html E Balanandan dies] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122204658/http://keralaonline.com/news/balanandan-dies_17603.html |date=22 January 2009 }}</ref>) was a communist politician from the [[Kerala]] State of [[India]]. He had been a member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]'s (CPI(M)) politburo since 1978. Born in [[Sakthikulangara]], [[Kollam District]], he was the son of Raman and Eswary Balandan.<br />
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Balanandan initiated his political career in the [[Indian National Congress]], but he later joined the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1943, and then the CPI(M) in 1964.<br />
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From 1967 to 1977, he was a member of the [[Kerala Legislative Assembly]]. In 1980, he was elected for a four-year term to the [[7th Lok Sabha]], the lower house of India's [[bicameral]] [[Parliament of India|parliament]] from [[Mukundapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mukundapuram constituency]]. He was elected to the upper house, [[Rajya Sabha]] twice in 1988 and 1994.<br />
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Balanandan was the President of the [[Centre of Indian Trade Unions]] and of the Electricity Employees' Federation of India.<br />
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Balanandan died on 19 January 2009 at a private hospital in Kochi in Kerala, where he was admitted due to respiratory illness. He had suffered from lung cancer for some time.<ref name=Keralaonline/><br />
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