Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan's Daughter getting Married to Young leader!

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter Veena Thayikkandiyil, a software engineer, is going to be married to the CPI-M youth wing, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) national President P A Mohammed Riyas.

This is the second marriage for both of them as their first ones ended in a divorce. Riyas’ got married for the first time in 2002 and the marriage lasted for three years. He fathered two children. Veena, who is also a mother of a child, got divorced three years ago. 

Veena is a Bangalore- based IT entrepreneur. Reportedly, the marriage has eben registered under the special Marriage Act and is scheduled to take place on June 15 at Thiruvananthapuram. 

Media reports highlight that the event is likely to be a small gathering consisting of close friends and family members.

Riyas is a retired IPS officer. He entered politics during his school days. He also held position as the national joint secretary of DYFI and was appointed as the president for DYFI in February 2017.

He contested the Lok Sabha elections in 2009 from Kozhikode constituency as a CPM Candidate but he lost to MK Raghavan of the Congress Party.

“Veena, daughter of Kerala CM Kamala Vijayan had started her career at the Oracle firm. After working there for eight years, she became the CEO of RP Techsoft in Thiruvananthapuram, owned by Ravi Pillai, an NRI based in Gulf. Now, she is heading Exalogic Solutions Private Limited, a venture she started in 2015, which is based in Bengaluru,” News 18 cited in its report.

The company was in news recently due to the sprinklr controversy (an issue raised by Congress).