# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/a-k-balan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:54.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/a-k-balan"
name: "A. K. Balan"
slug: "a-k-balan"
description: "A. K. Balan is an Indian politician and advocate. He was the Minister for Electricity and SC/ST Development in the Left Democratic Front government under V. S. Achuthanandan from 2006 to 2011, Minister for SC/ST, Law, Cultural Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs in the first Pinarayi Vijayan ministry 2016-2021. He is a member of Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He represented the Tarur/Kozhalmannnam constituency in the Kerala Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2021."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A.K._Balan%2C_Minister.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.234524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.minister-scst.kerala.gov.in/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Balan"
    title: "A. K. Balan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ए के बालन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "എ.കെ. ബാലൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F.%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87._%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A8"
    title: "ए.के. बालन"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%8F._%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஏ. கே. பாலன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3595515"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump