With the advent of higher education, the facility for political consciousness began to grow and Kanam was able to offer two candidates in the Vazhoor constituency for assembly elections. Adv. Kanam Sivan Pillai (CPM) and Kanam Rajendran (CPI). The latter won the seat twice. Now the CPM and CPI have a strong hold over the village. The communists of early years are leading their retired lives and some of them have died. The names of Pampady Balan, Anickadu PK. Sankara Pillai -"Stalin" Sankara Pillai is now