P. J. Kurien


Pallath Joseph P. J. Kurien is an Indian politician, social worker and educationist who is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, Kurien previously served as a Union Minister in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government and was a member of the Lok Sabha for six consecutive terms from 1980 to 1999. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2005.

P. J. Kurien was born onMarch 1941 to P. G. Joseph and Rachel Joseph in a Syrian Christian family at Vennikulam in Tiruvalla, Pathanamthitta District, Kerala. He had his early education at St. Behanas High School, Vennikulam. For higher education, he attended St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala and at Government Science College, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. He was a professor of Physics at St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, when he entered politics.

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