Port Blair, March 18: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has decided to nominate D. Ayyappan as its candidate for the lone Parliamentary seat in Andaman & Nicobar Islands for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. The Polit Bureau of the Party in New Delhi has conveyed the approval of the candidature of D. Ayyappan. He is the Secretary of the CPI (M) Andaman & Nicobar State Organising Committee and Vice President, CITU A & N State Committee.  

Shri D. Ayyappan is a Law Graduate from the Delhi University and enrolled as an Advocate. A University Topper in M.A (Political Science) from Pondichery University (JNRM, Port Blair), D. Ayyappan is the Chairman of the JNRM Alumni Association, Port Blair.  

A retired government officer from the Andaman & Nicobar Administration, D. Ayyappan took voluntary retirement from government service, 1 ½ year ahead of the superannuation to devote for full time trade union and party work.  He was the Private Secretary to N. Vasudevan, Counsellor (Health & Forests) in the erstwhile Pradesh Council, Andaman & Nicobar Islands from May 1990 to May, 1994.  

He was elected as the General Secretary of the Andaman & Nicobar State Committee of the Confederation of Central Govt. Employees & Workers in 2009.  

On promotion to a gazetted post, Ayyappan became the first General Secretary of the newly formed Andaman and Nicobar Gazetted Officers’ Association in 2015.