Ravindra Varma
Ravindra Varma (9 April 1925 – 10 October 2006) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Morarji Desai Ministry in India from 1977 to 1979.[citation needed] He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvalla in Kerala in 1962 on a Congress ticket.[citation needed] He was politically active in resisting the Emergency (1975–77) and organized underground cells.[citation needed] He had been the Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation since the death of its founder-chairman Diwakar in 1989.[citation needed] Varma belonged to the royal family in Mavelikkara in southern Kerala.