Sunny Joseph, known familiarly amongst his supporters as Sunnychaayan, (born 18 August 1952) is an Indian lawyer and politician from Kerala and is the current Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly of Peravoor since May 2011.
He was born in a Syro-Malabar Catholic family as the son of Joseph and Rosakutty. Sunny Joseph is a veteran political leader of the Indian National Congress and an Advocate by profession. Currently he is the President of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee and Chairman of United Democratic Front (UDF) Kannur District Committee.
Joseph joined Congress though Kerala Students Union (KSU), the student wing of the Indian National Congress, later rising through the organizational ranks via the Youth Congress.
He was former president of the Kannur district Congress Committee (DCC). Joseph is a three-time MLA representing Peravoor constituency in the district. Peravoor constituency had been a Congress stronghold since 1977. However the party lost the seat in the 2006 assembly election to senior CPI(M) leader K.K. Shailaja.
In the 2011 assembly elections, Joseph was chosen for the seat by Congress high command, which he won with 48.1% votes against K.K. ShailajaâÂÂs 45.1 percent. Joseph never lost the seat since then.