Suresh Gopi Public Record

I · The Person

II · Public Life

III · Government

IV · The Record

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06 Parliament

Two Houses,
two routes in.

Six years in the Council of States by nomination, then a seat in the House of the People by election. The two are constitutionally different things, and this page keeps them apart.

Suresh Gopi standing and reading from a paper while addressing the House in the Parliament of India chamber
Addressing the House, reading from a prepared reply, in the Parliament of India. Photograph: PTI. Plate 01  /  Parliament

House I

Rajya Sabha
2016 – 2022

Term
29 April 2016 – 24 April 2022
Nature
Nominated member
Term number
First
Nodal district
Thiruvananthapuram
Committees
Standing Committee on the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology; Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation

Twelve members of the Rajya Sabha are nominated by the President of India under Article 80 of the Constitution, from among persons with special knowledge or practical experience in literature, science, art and social service. Suresh Gopi entered Parliament by that route, not by election.

His participation across the six-year term is recorded by PRS Legislative Research, an independent research organisation that tracks the work of Parliament. Its figures for him, set against the national average for the same period, are reproduced below exactly as published.

The Press Information Bureau, summarising the term, described him as having been “known for his advocacy on environmental issues and social justice”.

Rajya Sabha participation of Suresh Gopi compared with the national average, as published by PRS Legislative Research
MeasureSuresh GopiNational average
Attendance74%80%
Debates participated in50106.1
Questions asked23299.18
Private member’s bills introduced01.2

Source: PRS Legislative Research, MP Track — Rajya Sabha record for the 2016–2022 term

PRS — Rajya Sabha record

House II

Lok Sabha
18th, from 2024

He was elected from Thrissur in the 2024 general election and assumed office on 4 June 2024. It was the first Lok Sabha seat the Bharatiya Janata Party had won in Kerala.

Five days later he was sworn in as a Union Minister of State, and that changes how his parliamentary record reads. A minister sits in the House as part of the government: ministers answer questions rather than ask them, and they do not sign the attendance register or introduce private member’s bills. PRS Legislative Research states this explicitly on his 18th Lok Sabha page:

Constituency
Thrissur, Kerala
House
18th Lok Sabha
Assumed office
4 June 2024
Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Status
Sitting member; Minister of State in the Union Council of Ministers
This MP is a minister. Ministers represent the government in debates, so we do not report their participation. They do not sign the attendance register, ask questions, or introduce private member bills. PRS Legislative Research — MP Track, 18th Lok Sabha

The practical consequence is that the usual back-bench metrics are recorded as nil for him, and that this is a statement about his office rather than about his activity. What he does in Parliament instead — replies given, papers laid, statements made on committee reports — is collected on the parliamentary work page.

PRS — 18th Lok Sabha record

iii Contests

Every election he has stood in.

2024
Lok Sabha

Thrissur — elected

4,12,338 votes, 38.01 per cent. Margin of 74,686 over Adv. V. S. Sunilkumar (CPI), with K. Muraleedharan (INC) third. Turnout 73.6 per cent.

Result — wonFull table

2021
Assembly

Thrissur assembly constituency — not elected

Polled 40,457 votes and finished in third position.

Result — lost

2019
Lok Sabha

Thrissur — not elected

Polled 2,93,822 votes and finished in third position. The seat was won by T. N. Prathapan of the Indian National Congress.

Result — lost

2016
Rajya Sabha

Nominated to the Council of States

Not an election. Nominated by the President of India under Article 80 of the Constitution; term ran from 29 April 2016 to 24 April 2022.

Nomination
The detailed recordParliamentary Work RelatedMinisterial Role