KOCHI: T M Jacob representing Piravom constituency is always a busy politician. Becoming a minister for the fifth time, he has been a member consecutively from the fifth
Kerala Legislative Assembly to the eleventh Assembly. The new trends in society have also influenced this politician who has a facebook account. But busy schedules prevent him from being a frequent visitor as he himself admits in his facebook.
Having more than four decades of political career, Jacob entered politics when he was a student in the 1960s and became the general secretary of the Kerala Students Congress, the students' wing of the Kerala Congress in 1971.
He was a member of the Kerala Congress from 1964. He became a member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1977 from Piravom. Jacob was one who could hold the ministerial post four times. He has served as the Minister for Education, Minister for Irrigation and Cultural Affairs and Minister for Water Resources in the ministries headed by K Karunakaran and A K Antony.
After a long stint in the Kerala Congress, Jacob parted ways with the parent party and formed the Kerala Congress (Jacob) in 1993.
Jacob had always been with the United Democratic Front until he left the front in 2005. He then dissolved his party and joined the Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran). But a year later Jacob parted ways with the DIC (K) and went back to the UDF.