P. Karunakaran

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = P. Karunakaran

| image =P Karunakaran.jpg

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| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1945|4|20|df=y}}

| birth_place =Kasaragod, Madras Presidency, British India
(now in Kerala, India)

| residence =Trivandrum, Kerala, India

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| office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| constituency = Kasaragod

| term_start = 2 June 2004

| term_end = 17 June 2019

| predecessor = T. Govindan

| successor =Rajmohan Unnithan

| office1 = Leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha

| term1 = 2014 - 2019

| predecessor1 = Basudev Acharia

| successor1 = P. R. Natarajan

| party =Communist Party of India (Marxist)

| religion =

| father = N. Koran

| mother = P. Chirutha

| spouse = {{Marriage|Laila|1978}}

| children = 1 daughter

| relatives = A. K. Gopalan (Father-in-law)
Susheela Gopalan (Mother-in-law)

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| source = [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4178][https://sansad.in/ls/members/biography/4178?from=members]

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P. Karunakaran (born 20 April 1945) is an Indian communist politician and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India.{{cite news |last1=The Times of India |title=P KARUNAKARAN : Bio, Political life |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/candidates/p-karunakaran |access-date=30 July 2024 |date=4 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730063515/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/elections/candidates/p-karunakaran |archive-date=30 July 2024}}

He represented the Kasargod constituency of Kerala and is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) political party. He was elected to Lok Sabha for the first time in 2004 general election. He won the second term in 2009 Lok Sabha election. He got 385,522 votes against 321,095 of the Congress(I) candidate. He was the leader of the Lok Sabha for CPI(M) in the 16th Loksabha.{{cite web | url=http://www.cpim.org/content/cpim-office-bearers-lok-sabha-rajya-sabha | title=CPI(M) Office Bearers in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha | date=9 June 2014 | accessdate=16 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216121547/http://www.cpim.org/content/cpim-office-bearers-lok-sabha-rajya-sabha | archive-date=16 December 2014 | url-status=dead }}

His wife Laila, is daughter of the communist leader A. K. Gopalan and Susheela Gopalan.{{cite web|url=http://kasargod.nic.in/administration/mp.htm |title=KASARGOD PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY |accessdate=16 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621111710/http://kasargod.nic.in/administration/mp.htm |archivedate=21 June 2008 }} He holds an M.A degree from Kerala University.[http://www.prsindia.org/mptrack/pkarunakaran prsindia]{{cite news |last1=ThePrint |first1= |title=MY543 Kerala-Kasaragod |url=https://theprint.in/my543/kerala-kasaragod/209043/ |access-date=30 July 2024 |date=21 March 2019 |archive-date=}}