A. M. Paraman (1926–2018) was an Indian politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. He belonged to the post-Independence generation of regional legislators whose careers reflected the consolidation of representative politics at the state level in India.
| Name | A. M. Paraman |
|---|---|
| Born | 1926 |
| Died | 2018 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Position | Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) |
A. M. Paraman was born in 1926, during the late colonial period in India. Like many of his contemporaries who entered public life after Independence in 1947, he became part of the broader cohort of regional politicians who shaped state-level legislative institutions in the decades following the framing of the Constitution of India in 1950.
Paraman served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, the elected lower house at the state level under India's federal parliamentary system. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are directly elected from territorial constituencies and are responsible for legislating on subjects within the State List and Concurrent List of the Constitution of India.
Paraman died in 2018 at the age of around 92.
As a long-lived legislator whose lifespan covered the late colonial era, Indian Independence, and the development of modern Indian electoral democracy, Paraman's career forms part of the documented record of Indian state-level political representation in the twentieth century.