Kozhikode
PA Mohammed Riyas
Riyas was born in Calicut, to his father P. M. Abdul Khader, an Indian Police Service officer. His relative pk moidheenkutty sahib former president KPCC Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee,AICC member, freedom fighter and member of madras assembly in 1937
He completed his schooling from St. Joseph Boys High School, Kozhikode and joined Farook College, Kozhikode for his pre-degree education. He continued in the same college for his under-graduate degree in Bachelor of Commerce. Later he secured a law degree from Government Law College, Kozhikode.
During his school days in St Joseph Boys High School, Kozhikode Mohammed Riyas was active with Students' Federation of India (SFI). In his 8th standard, he became the President of the SFI unit committee, and in the next year, he got as the unit secretary of the school committee. In his pre-degree days in Farook College, Calicut he was elected as the first year pre-degree representative of the college. In 1994 Riyas became the unit president of SFI committee in Farook College, and in the next conference he became the secretary of the unit. From Farook college, he won the post for university union councillor of Calicut University in 1996–97. Later he became a university union office-bearer in 1998. Riyas gradually became a prominent leadership of SFI.
He married Dr. Sameeha Saithalavi in 2002 and later divorced her in 2015 and they have two sons. On 15 June 2020, he married T. Veena, the daughter of then Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Riyas was a member of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, where he rose to become the president and finally the secretary of DYFI Kozhikode District Committee. From 2010 to 2016 he worked in the state centre of DYFI Kerala committee. During this period he held the office of State Vice President and later Joint Secretary of DYFI Kerala state committee. In 2016, he was elected as the All India Joint Secretary of DYFI. In 2017, he became the All India President of DYFI.
Riyas also joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1993, where he was a district committee member for Kozhikode, as well as a state committee member.
