User:Balapselvan/S. C. Balakrishnan

S.C. Balakrishnan was a politician, writer and editor. From his boyhood he showed great interest in public work and harijan uplift.

Political life
Balakrishnan was one of the founding leaders of the Revolutionary Socialist Party in Kerala. He was elected as an MLA to the Travancore-Cochin State Assembly in 1954 from the constituency of Trivandrum II.

In 1971 he became the MP representing the constituency of Ambalapuzha in Loksabha.

He would later go on to receive the Thamarapathram, an award given to outstanding politicians and activists by the government of India.