Post:Puthoor Via: Panoor K. P. Mohanan, is the former Kerala State Minister for Agriculture in United Democratic Front Cabinet from 18 May 2011 to 20 May 2016.

He was the General Secretary of Socialist Janata (Democratic) Party (SJD) based in Kerala, India.

SJD was part of Congress-led United Democratic Front until it was dissolved in 2014, whereas he belongs to Rashtriya Janata Dal currently.

(Aeronautical Engineering Diploma) from Nehru College, Coimbatore and then he worked as editor-in-chief for Padayani Daily, a National Socialist evening newspaper in Malayalam published from Thalassery.

K.P Mohanan also worked in Qatar for a short term in his career in the field of Photography, Film processing and sales in the colour Labs named as Vegas and Salam Studio & Stores.

In the 2011 assembly elections he won from Kuthuparamba constituency by defeating LDF independent candidate S.A Puthiyavalappil by a margin of 3303 votes.

[citation needed] K. P. Mohanan started his political career as a member of ISO, the Student's Organization of socialist party.

Though he set foot in Kerala politics under the shadow of his father, he was eventually able to make an identity of his own as a prominent leader by his hard work and shrewd tactics.