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Jaick C. Thomas
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Born (1990-04-05) 5 April 1990 (age 33)
Kottayam, Kerala, India
🏫 EducationBA Communicative English at CMS college, Kottayam, MA International Relations at Annamalai University
💼 Occupation
Youth Activist
🏢 OrganizationDemocratic Youth Federation of India
🏛️ Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

Jaick C. Thomas is a student and youth leader from Kerala. He is a state secretariat member of Democratic Youth Federation of India. He is a member of Kerala State Youth Welfare Board, an autonomous body under Government of Kerala[1] He was the former All India Vice President of Students' Federation of India.

Personal life[edit]

Jaick C. Thomas was born to M.T Thomas and Annama Thomas in Kottayam on April 5, 1990.[2][3] He did his schooling from Girideepam Bethany Higher Secondary School, Kalathipady. He completed his graduation in Communicative English from CMS college, Kottayam.[4][5] He did his master's degree in International Relations from Annamalai University.[6] He married Geethu Thomas on October 19, 2019.[7][8][9]

Political life[edit]

Student and youth politics[edit]

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Jaick C Thomas during the 2010 CMS college student protest

Jaick C Thoms emerged as a popular student leader with the strike conducted by the SFI in CMS college, Kottayam in 2010 against the syllabus restructuring of the BA communicative English course.[10] He was first suspended and later dismissed from the college over this issue.[11] It was after months long student struggle, the authorities of Mahatma Gandhi University allowed him to write examination.[10] The poem "Sakhavu" was written as a tribute to him for his involvement in the CMS college struggle.[12] He was then elected as the president and secretary of SFI district committee in Kottayam.[13] The ‘beef festival’ conducted during his tenure as a resistance to the Hindutva politics in colleges became a point of controversy in 2015.[13] He repeated beef festivals in 2017 as a protest against the Alwar mob lynching by sangh parivar groups and faced arrests.[14][15] He was the editor of Student, a magazine published by SFI Kerala committee.[6] He then became the state vice president of SFI. In 2016, Jaick became the state president of SFI Kerala Committee. He entered controversy for vandalizing Sri Vellappally Natesan College of Engineering, Kattachira in 2017[16] The protest march was organized by SFI after a second year student attempted suicide over management harassment.[16] He led struggles against the UDF government's move to increase the fee for MBBS students.[17][18][19] He also led the series of protest against the Nehru College of Engineering and Research Centre in Thrissur after an 18-year-old Kerala college student Jishnu Pranoy suicided over administrative harassment.[20] During his tenure, in the academic year 2017-18, SFI won 127 out of 132 colleges in Mahatma Gandhi University, 124 colleges out of a total of 170 colleges in Calicut University and all the seats in Kannur University Students Union.[21]SFI also introduced membership to transgenders in this period, the first student organisation in India to do so.[22] He became quite notable in Kerala during his SFI state leadership.[23][24][25]

He was elected to the secretariat of Democratic Youth Federation of India in its 14th state conference held at Kozhikode in November 2019.[26] He slammed BJP government led by Modi for bringing Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. He said "those who betrayed Indian national movement to the colonial British rule are now asking for a document to prove the Indian citizenship"[27] He is a vocal opponent of sangh parivar and Hindutva politics.[28]

Party politics[edit]

Jaick C. Thomas is a district committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Kottayam, Kerala. He frequently appears in television channel debates as the spoke person of CPI(M).[29][30][31] In 2019 Panchayth polls, CPM had given the charge of Puthuppally panchayat to Jaick C Thomas.[32] His leadership gained statewide attention as the left front ousted the decade long ruling party, the Indian National Congress from power.[32] Puthuppally is the home town of former Congress chief minister Oommen Chandy as well.[32]

2016 Kerala Assembly election[edit]

In 2016, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) fielded the then 26-year-old student leader against Kerala's Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Puthupally Assembly Constituency.[33] This contest was viewed as the "David vs Goliath" battle in 2016 assembly election.[33] He was the youngest candidate in the assembly polls as well. But he lost the election to Oommen Chandy. Being a debutant, Jaick managed to garner 44,505 votes, which was 33.2% of the total vote share polled.[34]

2021 Kerala Assembly election[edit]

In 2021, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has again fielded the 31-year old young leader Jaick C Thomas in Puthupally Assembly Constituency to take on the former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, a 11-time winner from the constituency.[34][35][36] N Hari was the BJP Candidate.[37] Jaick viewed "election as not a fight between people, but a fight between policies."[34][38]

Jaick C Thomas lost the election to Oommen Chandy.[39] But he managed to reduce the Congress monopoly from 33,255 votes to 8000 votes, a decline of 18,588 votes from 2016 assembly election's margin.[40]

2021 Result Status: Puthupally Assembly Constituency [39]
Candidate Party Total Votes % of Votes
1 Oommen Chandy Indian National Congress 63,372 48.08
2 Jaick C Thomas Communist Party of India (Marxist) 54,328 41.22
3 N Hari Bharatiya Janata Party 11,694 8.87
4 George Jospeh Vathappally Independent 997 0.76
5 MV Cherian Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 146 0.11
6 Abhilash P P Bahujan Samaj Party 763 0.58
7 NOTA None of the Above 497 0.38
Total 1,31,797

Controversy[edit]

He made controversy after his remark in a television debate that the Qur'an is printed in Arabic Malayalam.[41] He later apologised for his tongue slip and clarified that he intended about Khath Funnani, the Ponnani script popular for printing Quran and other texts in Malabar.[42][43][44]

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