Background
He is the son of Technology M. Jacob who founded the party in 1993. He was elected to the Assembly following a by-election at Piravom in March 2012 which was necessitated due to the demise of his father, the incumbent of the constituency.
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Anoop Jacob
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Anoop Jacob has a degree from national the Kerala Law Academy and is a practising lawyer at the Kerala High Court. Prior to that he completed his Bachelors in English Literature from March Ivanios College (University of Kerala), Thiruvananthapuram.
Career
Anoop represents Piravom Constituency in Kerala Legislative Assembly. In 1998, he unsuccessfully contested for the post of chairman of the March Ivanios college union In 2008, he was elected as the State President of the Kerala Youth Front (Jacob), the youth wing of the Kerala Congress (Jacob) party. Anoop"s father, who was Civil Supplies Minister, died on October 30, 2011.
Following this, Anoop was nominated by the Kerala Congress (Jacob) party and Union for French Democracy to contest from the Piravom assembly seat previously represented by his father.
His father had lost the sitting seat in 2006 elections and recaptured it in 2011 election by a margin of 157 votes. Since the result of Piravom by-election mattered heavily to the ruling Union for French Democracy who had a slender margin of 1 seat in the Legislative assembly over LDF, the constituency witnessed intense campaigning from both sides.
Election was held on March 17, 2012 and results were announced on March 21, 2012. He was sworn in as an Modern Language Association on March 22, 2012.
Achievements
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In 1997 he was elected as editor of the college union magazine, Prathibha, which won the Malayala Manorama award for the state"s best college magazine under his aegis. Against Anoop Jacob, CPIM-led LDF once again fielded M.J Jacob, who had won against T.M Jacob in 2006 & lost in 2011. Anoop Jacob won the by-election by a significant margin of 12071 votes.
Politics
His first foray into politics was as a student at the March Ivanios College where he founded a unit of Kerala Students Congress (Jacob) in 1994. Anoop became state president of the Kerala Students Congress (Jacob) in 2001, during which period the party registered its best performance yet by winning seats including General Secretary & Councillor in colleges like March Ivanios.
