Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter Veena, an IT entrepreneur, married the president of the CPI-M youth wing, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), P A Mohammed Riyas at a function in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.
While the marriage has been registered under the Special Marriage Act, a simple wedding function is being held at the CM’s residence with close friends and family as attendees.
This is the second marriage for both the couple. Father of two, Riyas’s first marriage with a medical doctor ended in divorce 2015. His wife had levelled serious domestic violence allegations against Riyas. Veena, who is also the mother of a child, had gone through a divorce in 2015.
Veena is the director of Exalogic Solutions Private Limited, a venture she started in 2015, which is based in Bengaluru.
Riyas, son of PM Abdulkhader, a retired IPS officer, had entered the field of politics during his school days. He was formerly the national joint secretary of DYFI and was appointed the President in February 2017.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Riyas had contested from the Kozhikode constituency as a CPM candidate, but lost to MK Raghavan of the Congress party by a slender margin of 838 votes.
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