Synopsis: For nine years, since taking office in 2016, Vijayan has been remaining steely, unyielding, and often unchallenged within his party. But as his second term enters its twilight years, the 80-year-old CPI(M) stalwart finds himself encircled by controversies that refuse to fade.

As the Left eyes a historic third term, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan stands tall as its iron-willed captain — a man of steely discipline and unshakable ideological resolve.

Yet, the carefully curated image of invincibility is showing cracks — not from policy failures or Opposition attacks, but from within his own household.

At the centre of this political maelstrom stand his two children: daughter T Veena Vijayan, a tech entrepreneur, and son Vivek Kiran Vijayan, a Dubai-based professional.

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