K. M. Mani

Karingozhackal Mani Mani (30 January 1933 – 9 April 2019) was an Indian politician from Kerala and the long-time chairman of Kerala Congress (M), one of the principal factions of the Kerala Congress, a regional party known for its influence in agrarian and Christian-dominated regions of the state. He was a dominant figure in Kerala politics for over five decades and held several key ministerial portfolios, including Finance, Home, Revenue, and Law.

Mani remains the longest-serving member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, having continuously represented the Pala constituency from its inception in 1965 until his death in 2019. His later political career, however, was marked by controversy, most notably the 2014–2015 bar bribery allegations, following which he resigned as Kerala’s Finance Minister in November 2015 after adverse observations by the Kerala High Court, even as the case remained under investigation.