Chandy Oommen

He functioned as a member of the Organising Committee of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Chandy, who is an advocate by profession, has been practicing law at the Supreme Court of India since 2016. In between, he also worked as an adjunct lecturer at the Amity University, Noida and the Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi from 2017 to 2020.[5][4]

Chandy was active in politics since his college days. He is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). He previously served as the Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress in the state of Kerala. He later assumed the role of chairman of the National Outreach Cell of the Indian Youth Congress in 2022. In late 2022, Chandy embarked on a 4,000 kilometer barefoot walk as part of the Bharat Jodo Yatra movement led by INC leader Rahul Gandhi. However, he had to step down before its completion due to his father's illness.[6]

His father Oommen Chandy represented the Puthuppally Assembly constituency consecutively for 53 years. Puthuppally by-election was necessitated by the death of his father in July 2023.[7] Chandy was selected as the candidate of United Democratic Front (UDF) by the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), who submitted his nomination for the bypoll. Election was held on 5 September.[8][9][10][11] His election campaign began on 23 August.[12] The result was announced on 8 September. Chandy won the bypoll with a record margin of 37,719 votes against Jaick C. Thomas of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) by amassing 80,144 votes altogether.[13] It was the highest ever margin for any candidate in the history of Puthuppally assembly election. The vote share of UDF also raised to 13.3 percent compared to last assembly election.[14]