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== కుటుంబం ==

 

Narayanan entered politics at the request of [[Indira Gandhi]] and won three successive general elections to the [[Lok Sabha]] in [[Indian general elections 1977-1999#1984|1984]], [[Indian general elections 1977-1999#1989|1989]] and [[Indian general elections 1977-1999#1991|1991]], as a representative of the [[Ottapalam]] constituency in [[Palakkad]], Kerala, on a [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] ticket. He was a [[Minister of State]] in the Union cabinet under [[Rajiv Gandhi]], holding the portfolios of Planning (1985), External Affairs (1985–86), and Science and Technology (1986–89). As a [[Member of Parliament#India|Member of Parliament]], he resisted international pressure to tighten patent controls in India. He sat in the opposition benches when the Congress was voted out of power during 1989–91. Narayanan was not included in the cabinet when the Congress returned to power in 1991. [[K. Karunakaran]], Congress [[Chief Minister of Kerala]], a political adversary of his{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}, informed him that he was not made a minister because of him being a "Communist [[Fellow traveller|fellow-traveller]]{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}". He did not, however, respond when Narayanan pointed out that he had defeated Communist candidates{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}} ([[A. K. Balan]] and [[Lenin Rajendran]], the latter twice) in all three elections.<ref name="ptt_int" />