Anto Antony

Contact Details

Anto Antony
(1) 44,Skyline
Palmspring Villa
Vadavathoor P.O
Kottayam Dist.
Kerala

Career

A native of Poonjar in Kottayam district, he was 57 years old in April 2013. He attended St. Thomas College, Pala; the Kerala Law Academy Law College, Thiruvananthapuram (affiliated to Kerala University); the Government Law College, Ernakulam, (under Mahatma Gandhi University; and the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences. He was the general secretary of the Kerala Students Union (KSU).

Politics

Anto Antony Punnathaniyil (born 1956) is a newly elected member of the 15th Lok Sabha from the Pathanamthitta electoral district in Kerala. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and on May 16, 2009, in the first election held in this newly apportioned district, he was elected as a United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate by 408,232 votes over K. Ananthagopan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) with 297,026; B. Radhakrishna Menon of the Bharatiya Janata Party with 56,294 and three other candidates.