Pulloli Chacko Thomas (born 31 October 1950) is an Indian politician who was Union Minister of State for Law and Justice for Kerala from 2003 to 2004 and a six-term member of Lok Sabha from 1989 to 2009.
Later in 1989 he contested in the Lok Sabha election from Muvattupuzha as the candidate of Kerala Congress (M) and defeated Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate P. P. Esthos and P. J. Joseph, another Kerala Congress leader.
[2] However, Supreme Court of India cancelled the results and disqualified him in 2006 on the ground that he used his religious background to woo voters during the polls.
After his Lok Sabha term, he has filed about 15 public interest litigations as part-in-person, in the High Court of Kerala and Supreme Court of India In 2006, when Finance Minister P. Chidambaram made an announcement that the Government of India will issue a commemorative coin dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Sree Narayana Guru, P. C. Thomas suggested that coin' logo should be written both in Hindi and English.
His father P. T. Chacko was a political stalwart who was a member of Indian Constituent Assembly representing Travancore-Cochin from 1949, a member representing Meenachil Lok Sabha Constituency in the first Lok Sabha in 1952, first opposition leader of the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1957 and the Home Minister in Pattom Thanu PillaiI's ministry.