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  • Hurt Chennithala to Sonia Gandhi: Oommen Chandy’s posting price expensive in Kerala polls

    By Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Pained by his elimination from the Opposition chief submit, Ramesh Chennithala, in a strongly worded letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, stated the celebration excessive command’s choice to nominate the election administration committee headed by Oommen Chandy alienated Hindu voters from the celebration and UDF. This was one of many main causes for the Congress’ ballot debacle within the state, he stated.

    In the letter, he stated, “Despite performing efficiently throughout the tenure, that too when the opposition activities were crippled by Covid, I was sidelined and humiliated by appointing an election management committee headed by Chandy at the fag end of my tenure, even after Chandy himself never wanted the same. That was one of the reasons for losing the Hindu votes,” he stated. 

    Chennithala pained over manner he was proven door

    He additionally expressed his deep ache and anguish over the way in which he was proven the door quickly after the ballot debacle. When the discussions for electing the brand new Congress legislative celebration (CLP) chief within the meeting began, Chandy requested Congress basic secretary Okay C Venugopal personally whether or not there was any choice from the excessive command to vary the CLP chief and the reply was a categorical ‘no’. “I personally asked Mallikarjun Kharge (who headed the fact-finding team) the same question and the answer was again a categorical ‘no’.”

    He stated if he got any indication that the celebration was planning to take away him, he would have gracefully opted out. “Then, I could have publicly announced that I am opting out of the race. This would have been an honourable exit for me. I feel this was deliberately kept out of my purview and selective leaks were made to the media that I had been trying to hold on to the post, damaging my hard-earned reputation. I am deeply pained and anguished by the way the whole issue was handled. It has tarnished my image badly and had bruised my heart.”

    Chennithala stated that in his profession spanning over 40 years, he had a blemish-less observe file. There have been additionally planted media reviews that he was not having fun with the help of Sonia and Rahul, which pained him so much, he stated within the letter. He additionally claimed he nonetheless enjoys the bulk help of the MLAs within the CLP. “But, irrespective of positions, I have always been and will be loyal to you and the party.” Chennithala reminded Sonia that he had not been correctly rewarded by the celebration regardless of discharging all difficult duties assigned to him over time.

  • Meet the ministers in Kerala’s new Cabinet

    P Prasad, 51, CPI, Agriculture Minister
    Elected from Cherthala constituency in his debut electoral contest, Prasad is called a inexperienced politician as he had been within the forefront of a number of environmental agitations. Prasad, convener of CPI’s subcommittee for atmosphere, had been energetic within the agitation in opposition to the bottling plant of sentimental drink main Coke at Plachimada in Palakkad. Prasad, who rose from social gathering ranks, had been energetic in Narmada Bachao Andolan and protests in opposition to greenfield airport at Aranmula in Kerala. During the LDF regime of 2006-2011, Prasad had served as extra personal secretary to Binoy Vishwam, then forest minister.
    Okay Krishnankutty, 75, Janata Dal (S), Power Minister .
    Krishnakutty, who gained from his pocket borough Chittur in Palakkad, had served as water assets minister within the earlier LDF regime for two-and-a-half years. Krishnakutty, a farmer-cum-politician, had began his political profession in Congress, however moved to Janata Party and later shifted to Janata Dal. When Janata Dal (S) break up in 2009, he had joined the splinter group led by M P Veerendrakumar. In 2015, he returned to JD (S). He had acquired elected to the meeting 4 occasions previously. One of the senior ministers within the second Vijayan authorities, Krishnakutty has been within the forefront in defending the rights of Kerala in inter-state water disputes.

    A Okay Saseendran, 75, NCP, Forest Minister 
    Saseendran had been transport minister within the first Vijayan Government. He needed to stop workplace for a brief interval after a TV channel aired an audio of his sexually express conversion with a girl journalist. Saseendran, who gained from Elathur constituency in Kozhikode, had been with Congress however moved to Left in 1978 together with A Okay Antony. Although Antony later went again to Congress, Saseendran stood with Congress (S), an ally of LDF since 1982.  Since 1980, he has contested eight elections and gained six occasions. Although the Kerala unit of the social gathering had break up on the eve of meeting elections, the Saseendran faction stood with LDF in Kerala and with Sharad Pawar on the nationwide degree.
    Antony Raju 67, Janadhipathya Kerala Congress, Transport Minister
    Antony Raju is a shock winner of this election from Thiruvananthapuram Central, the place he defeated Congress’ sitting legislator V S Sivakumar, BJP’s actor-turned-candidate Krishnakumar. Antony, who belongs to the backward Christian neighborhood within the coastal space, has been an odd man within the regional social gathering Kerala Congress, dominated by higher caste Catholics of Central Kerala. He had contested 5 elections from the state capital since 1991 however gained in two occasions, together with the victory of 2021. When his mentor P J Joseph of Kerala Congress (Joseph) returned to UDF in 2015, Antony break up the social gathering and floated Janadhipathya Kerala Congress, which remained with LDF. A lawyer by career, Antony ensured illustration for the coastal neighborhood within the second Vijayan regime.

    Ahamed Devarkovil, 61, Indian National League, Port and Archeology Minister 
    By changing into a minister within the second Vijayan Government, Ahamed has ensured the debut entry for his social gathering, which veteran parliamentarian late Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait had shaped in 1994 after strolling out of Indian Union Muslim League within the post-Babri churning in that social gathering. INL had been with LDF since then, however was made an ally solely earlier than the final Lok Sabha elections. Ahamed had been with IUML, however moved to Mumbai to run a journey company in 1980’s. Later, he joined INL in Mumbai when the social gathering was shaped in 1994. After he began a journey company enterprise in Kozhikode, Ahamed transformed that metropolis into his political floor. He additionally rose as INL state president and nationwide basic secretary. In his maiden electoral battle in Kozhikode south, he defeated IUML girl candidate Noorbeena Rasheed.

    Okay Rajan, 47, CPI, Revenue Minister 
    He gained from Ollur constituency for the second time period in 2021. Rajan had served because the Government chief whip within the earlier LDF regime, however solely from 2019. He began his political profession as a frontrunner of All India Students’ Federation, the coed wing of CPI, and later rose to the management of its youth outfit All India Youth Federation (AIYF). A member of CPI state govt, Rajan has been energetic in a number of agitations in opposition to the earlier UDF regime of 2011-2016. A lawyer by career, Rajan had led the LDF agitations in opposition to bar bribery and photo voltaic scandals of UDF.
    Chinchu Rani, 57, CPI, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Minister
    Chinchu Rani acquired elected from Chadayamangalam in her first electoral battle and went on to turn out to be a minister as CPI wished to appoint a brand new workforce to the LDF authorities.  She is the primary girl minister from CPI, after the social gathering break up in 1964, resulting in the formation of CPI(M).  Chinju, an athlete throughout her faculty days in Kollam, had acquired initiated into the state’s three-tier native physique. She had been a member of Eravipuram village panchayat in addition to the district panchayat in Kollam. She is at present a member of CPI the nationwide council and the state govt. Her husband D Sukesan can also be a CPI chief in Kollam.
    G R Anil, 58, CPI, Civil Supplies Minister 
    Anil represents Nedumangad meeting seat in Thiruvananthapuram. Anil, who had served as CPI district secretary in Thiruvananthapuram, had been a member of the town municipal company for ten years. A former district secretary of the All-India Kisan Sabha, Anil is at present the social gathering’s state working committee member and district vice-president of the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). A regulation graduate, Anil is a frontrunner of a number of AITUC affiliated commerce unions. His spouse Latha Devi, a retired faculty professor, had acquired elected to the state meeting from Chadayamangalam constituency in 1996.

    Roshi Augustine, 52, Kerala Congress (M), Water Resources Minister
    Roshi, a shadow of Kerala Congress (M) chairman Jose Okay Mani, rose to prominence within the social gathering after the demise of Okay M Mani in 2019. He stood with junior Mani within the intra-party tussle over its legacy and emerged because the second-in command underneath Jose. Roshi acquired elected from Idukki constituency, which he has been profitable since 2001. The surprising defeat of Jose Okay Mani within the elections, paved the way in which for Roshi’s entry into the second Vijayan cabinet. A regulation graduate, Roshi had entered politics by KC (M) youth outfit Youth Front.
    KN Balagopal, 57, CPI, Finance Minister 
    Aformer Rajya Sabha MP, KN Balagopal is anticipated to carry his parliamentary expertise and maturity to the state cabinet in Kerala. He is among the many 12 nominees of the CPI(M) within the Pinarayi Vijayan-led authorities which can take its oath on Thursday.
    Balagopal (57) was elected from the Kottarakkara Assembly constituency in Kollam district within the not too long ago held Assembly elections by over 10,000 votes. This is his debut election to the Assembly. Balagopal, who entered politics as a scholar chief within the 80s, rose by the ranks of the coed outfit SFI and the youth outfit DYFI to make his mark within the state’s politics. He finally turned the nationwide president of each the SFI and DYFI.
    P Rajeev, 54, CPI, Industries Minister
    On May 2, when it turned clear that the CPM’s P Rajeev would emerge the winner in Kalamassery constituency in Ernakulam district, a pocketborough of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), his elevation to the Kerala cabinet was a foregone conclusion. On Tuesday, the state secretariat of the CPM confirmed his identify as one in every of its 12 members within the Pinarayi Vijayan 2.0 cabinet.
    At 54, that is Rajeev’s debut election to the state Assembly and can be his first time as a minister. Rajeev had shone each on the state and nationwide degree throughout his stint within the Rajya Sabha between 2009 and 2015. He served because the CPM’s chief whip and deputy chief within the Upper House. He was a member of varied parliamentary committees, together with advisory, info, petitions and insurance coverage invoice choose committee.
     

  • Kerala elections 2021: BJP district items hit out at state prime brass for dismal present

    Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Despite having round 30 lakh major members within the state, why might the BJP ballot solely 23.5 lakh votes within the current meeting election? Where did the 6.5 lakh get together votes go?

    Why might BJP’s most important ally BDJS, which polled 8 lakh votes in 2016, retain solely half of those votes in 2021? These had been the powerful questions that the saffron get together’s state management confronted because it took inventory of the meeting election outcomes.

    The district-level conferences to analyse election outcomes, which got here to a detailed on Friday, additionally witnessed fierce opposition to the alleged ‘one-upmanship’ of the V Muraleedharan-Okay Surendran axis within the get together. Some district items even demanded an intensive management change to salvage the get together from the current plight, a lot to the displeasure of the official faction.

    “Crucial grassroots-level work such as house visits have happened only in around 1,500 of the 20,000 booths where the party has influence. Many of the workers were reluctant to even distribute one-fourth of the notices and campaign leaflets due to their differences with the state leadership,” mentioned a senior BJP chief who was aware of the varied district-level management conferences. 

    The management conferences concluded that booth-level organisational work was completely ineffective this time round. There was additionally stiff opposition to the norm of fixing an higher age restrict of 45 years for mandalam presidents. This led to skilled aged leaders, who might join effectively with the individuals, being completely sidelined from election work. 

    ‘Neutral voters alienated’

    A chopper-hopping state president contesting in two seats, a destructive marketing campaign technique, claims of forming the subsequent authorities with even 35 seats and thereby signalling attainable horse-trading after the election, had been a number of the components that alienated impartial voters from the get together this time, in accordance with the district committees. 

    The get together couldn’t money in on the candidature of eminent personalities like E Sreedharan or the visits of Prime Minister Narendra Mod and different prime nationwide leaders to key constituencies. At the organisational stage, the factional struggle taking part in out within the open and choice of candidates who’re loyal solely to the official faction led to the alienation of numerous get together staff, it was identified. 

    The district-level management conferences had been additionally of the view that although the get together couldn’t make important positive factors within the native physique polls, such a surprising defeat that questioned the very relevance of the get together was least anticipated and sought pressing corrective measures together with a revamp of the get together’s state prime brass.

  • Kerala elections: Victory not a one-man present, says nationwide CPM mouthpiece

    By Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is being credited with main the Left entrance to a convincing win within the meeting elections, the CPM has come down closely on makes an attempt to venture one individual over the federal government and the celebration.

    The CPM termed the victory as the results of each particular person and collective efforts, amid a rising Pinarayi cult inside the celebration and the entrance. Even earlier than the polls, a debate had raged over Pinarayi being addressed as ‘captain’ by his admirers. 

    The newest situation of the celebration mouthpiece ‘Peoples Democracy’— edited by senior CPM chief Prakash Karat — accommodates some sharp observations in opposition to branding one chief over and above the celebration. The strongly-worded editorial goes on to denounce strikes to venture Pinarayi as somebody who eclipses even the celebration.  

    ‘Win: Individual, collective efforts’

    “There is an effort by sections of the media and a few political commentators to cut back this historic victory solely to the character and position of Pinarayi Vijayan. According to them, it’s the emergence of a ‘supreme leader’ or ‘strong man’ that was the primary cause for the electoral success of the LDF.

    There’s little doubt that Pinarayi, as chief minister, set a brand new commonplace in offering political steering to coverage making, all the time holding individuals’s pursuits in thoughts and displaying administrative skill in getting insurance policies applied.

    Nevertheless, the victory is the results of each particular person and collective efforts. As far as CPM and LDF are involved, the incoming ministry will proceed the custom of collective work and particular person accountability,” stated the editorial. 

  • Down and out, Congress in for whole overhaul

    Express News Service
    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An overhaul from high to backside is what the Congress management plans for reviving the occasion which confronted a humiliating defeat within the meeting polls. The overhaul will guarantee all jumbo committees of the district Congress committees and Pradesh Congress Committee are changed with slimmer and extra skilled formations. 

    The restructuring of the organisation shall be held after correct pointers are ready on the two-day Political Affairs Committee (PAC) assembly scheduled for May 18 and 19. Friday’s daylong PAC assembly that was attended by senior leaders together with Oommen Chandy, Ramesh Chennithala and Mullappally Ramachandran and joined by AICC common secretary Tariq Anwar just about determined in opposition to any knee-jerk response because the scenario could be very severe and wishes cautious dealing with.

    A call on whether or not there shall be any change on the helm of state management and Congress parliamentary occasion shall be taken by nationwide management later. With AICC set to elect the occasion’s new nationwide president and Congress Working Committee subsequent month, the change of guard in state could also be delayed to be timed together with that.

    Chandy owns up accountability for Cong’s dismal failure in elections

    It is learnt that apart from veteran chief P J Kurien, no different member of the PAC attacked the management of occasion state president Mullappally Ramachandran and Ramesh Chennithala in the course of the assembly. Kurien stated factionalism is the bane of the state Congress and alleged there was no collective resolution making within the occasion. 

    At the assembly, former chief minister Oommen Chandy owned up the accountability for the dismal failure within the elections because the chairman of the 10-member Election Management and Strategy Committee. Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala maintained that he’s prepared to just accept no matter resolution the excessive command takes. The PAC assembly concluded {that a} weak occasion equipment, organisational lapses, scarcity of funds and flaws in election preparations and campaigning are the main causes that led to the defeat.

    Tariq Anwar, who attended the assembly on-line from New Delhi, zeroed in on three causes for the ballot setback — overconfidence, groupism and organisational weak spot. He has promised the occasion employees of taking on quick and long-term remedial measures to strengthen the occasion. The central Congress observers, Mallikarjun Kharge and V Vaithilingam, shall be attending the PAC assembly on May 18 and 19. The Congress parliamentary occasion assembly may also be held to decide on the brand new opposition chief. 

  • Left’s thumping win creates ripples in Ireland, tweet piques curiosity of Malayalis worldwide

    Express News Service
    KOZHIKODE: “In Kerala, India, a state of 34 million people, the Communists have been returned to government with a resounding victory off the back of the party’s supreme handling of the Covid crisis. It gives hope that one day we also can fight our way out of this neo-liberal stranglehold,” wrote Eilis Ryan in her Facebook web page on May 2 after the LDF retained energy right here. 

    Ryan is the chief of The Workers’ Party in Ireland and an elected member of Dublin City Council, in addition to a socialist and feminist. “Thank you to all Malayalee (sic) comrades for keeping the reality of an alternative to capitalism alive for us all,” she continued.

    Soon after Ryan posting this, Malayali comrades throughout the globe flocked to her profile and showered with likes, feedback, shares and greeted her with a ‘red salute’. 

    An enthusiastic cyber comrade didn’t overlook to put up the image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the dialogue passed off even in Malayalam. Unlike Ryan’s typical posts which didn’t transcend 100, this one acquired greater than 2,100 likes until Thursday, due to the Malayali exuberance on FB. 

    Beyond cheers of Malayali comrades, the put up additionally kickstarted dialogue on whether or not it’s Communism or average socialism current in Kerala, a poser raised by an Irish girl. She additionally requested what points of BJP made it fascist somewhat than right-wing conservative. And a useful Malayali defined in regards to the presence of a strong cooperative motion and omnipresent self-help teams in Kerala as response.

  • Steep decline in Ezhava vote share hurts NDA, Left reaps profit

    Express News Service
    KOCHI: Allegations of vote buying and selling have as soon as once more come to hang-out the state BJP, with caretaker Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan alleging a deal between the saffron get together and UDF to stop an LDF victory. However, a detailed evaluation of the voting sample reveals that it’s the LDF that has benefited from the shift in NDA votes.

    A preliminary evaluation by BJP has revealed a steep decline in get together’s votes in constituencies the place the Ezhava neighborhood holds sway. A senior BJP chief mentioned there was a steep drop in NDA vote share in Ezhava strongholds of central and south Kerala. SNDP Yogam normal secretary Vellappally Natesan overtly declared his help to Pinarayi on Monday, which factors to an understanding between the Yogam and CPM, mentioned the chief.

    “The union secretaries of SNDP Yogam convened meetings and instructed the branch committees to mobilise votes for LDF. There were skirmishes in Konni, Adoor and Aroor when BJP supporters questioned the move,” mentioned a celebration chief.

    BDJS has been at loggerheads with BJP as the guarantees given by the latter’s nationwide management in 2016 weren’t saved. A piece of BDJS staff had been allegedly inactive throughout campaigning and the steep drop in vote share in round 30 seats, together with Kodungallur, Paravoor, Vaikom and Ettumanoor reveals the shift in votes. “While a section of Ezhava votes shifted in favour of LDF, we lost a considerable amount of Nair votes following a call given by NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair. The CPM instigated the SNDP Yogam leadership to vote for LDF to stop a Nair leader from becoming the chief minister,” he alleged.

    The NDA’s vote share in Kerala had climbed from 6.06% within the 2011 meeting polls to 16% in 2016 after BDJS joined the fold. However, its vote share declined to 12.04% this time. BDJS’ vote share declined from 3.93% in 2016 to 1% this time. It appears a bit of Ezhava voters, who had been CPM supporters earlier than the formation of BDJS, have now returned to the left get together.

    “Allegations against BDJS leaders are not true. They were active during campaigning and the rise in vote share in constituencies like Chathannoor and Attingal are examples of their dedicated work. However, CPM succeeded in luring away a section of Ezhava voters who supported NDA for 2016. This happened in some constituencies and we are analysing the results to ascertain the reasons for the debacle,” mentioned BJP state normal secretary B Gopalakrishnan.

    A marketing campaign has kicked off in social media demanding a management change in BJP. The cadre are blaming state president Okay Surendran and Union Minister V Muraleedharan for the get together’s poor present. In his Facebook web page, Hindu Aikya Vedi normal secretary R V Babu wrote that these chargeable for the drop in vote share ought to personal up duty. 

    A piece of leaders have criticised the state management for spoiling the prospect to draw Christian voters to NDA. Efforts made by Mizoram governor P S Sreedharan Pillai to contain Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the talks to resolve the church row between Jacobite and Orthodox factions had created a constructive influence among the many Christian neighborhood within the state. Jacobite bishops had been invited to Delhi on the reassurance of assembly Home Minister Amit Shah. However, the state BJP management backtracked and the bishops returned with a wounded coronary heart after ready for 2 days. 

    BDJS PLANS TO LEAVE NDA FOLDKochi: The Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), a political get together with appreciable affect among the many Ezhava neighborhood, might depart the NDA fold quickly. As a primary step get together president Thushar Vellappally might resign from the put up of NDA state convenor. The state council of the BDJS which is able to maintain a digital meet on Wednesday will take a last name on the proposal.

    The choice comes within the again drop of the rising discord and the authoritarian angle of the BJP. “There is no democracy in the NDA in Kerala. The BJP unilaterally took over our seats and were imposing their decisions on us. While the BDJS workers campaigned with dedication for BJP candidates, they did not support our candidates which led to a sharp decline in our vote share,” mentioned a BDJS chief.

  • Pressure on Mullappally to give up, AICC sends feelers

    Express News Service
    KOCHI: The writing on the wall is obvious for KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran — to exit gracefully now or wait until the social gathering management asks him to step down. AICC sources instructed TNIE that they anticipated Mullappally, who led the social gathering to one among its worst defeats within the meeting polls, to submit his resignation instantly, as was accomplished by his Assam counterpart. 

    Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ripun Bora resigned from his submit on Sunday night itself although the Congress fared significantly better within the northeastern state.“Mullappally Ramachandran’s resignation is expected by the high command and it has informally communicated to him to step down. In two days, if there is no resignation, official routes will be explored. It is left to him to exit gracefully.  The Assam PCC president took the moral responsibility for the defeat and resigned. The same was expected of Mullappally,” mentioned a celebration supply. 

    “We thought he would send his resignation immediately after the results came out. But that did not happen,” the supply mentioned.However, senior native leaders mentioned a closing choice on the longer term plan of action shall be taken solely on the KPCC’s political affairs committee assembly, scheduled for Friday. “It won’t do any good for the party if immediate decisions are made, without any discussions,” mentioned a senior chief.

    But, not everybody holds the identical view. Veteran Congress chief Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan fired the primary salvo by proposing Ok Sudhakaran’s title as the following KPCC chief. Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden posted on his Facebook web page: “Why do we still need a sleeping president?” Following his submit, a number of Congress staff got here up with their feedback in opposition to Mullappally, demanding a change of guard.

    A newly-elected MLA instructed TNIE {that a} consensus was constructing among the many Congress trio of Ramesh Chennithala, Oommen Chandy and Mullappally to take care of the established order in the interim. But sources within the central management mentioned the native leaders are taking part in a ready sport as they’re going through “irrelevance” and therefore they’re “protecting each other.”The names of Sudhakaran and Ok Muraleedharan are doing the rounds as alternative for Mullapally. Though the social gathering received 19 of 20 seats within the Lok Sabha polls beneath Mullappally, it was a downhill journey for him since then, dropping the native physique elections final 12 months and the meeting polls now.

    Satheesan to be Oppn chief?

    Sources mentioned Thiruvanchoor floated Sudhakaran’s title for the following KPCC chief as a technique to realize the Kannur strongman’s assist for himself to be made the chief of opposition within the meeting. But V D Satheesan’s title is gaining momentum amongst youthful leaders, given his efficiency as a legislator, his sturdy secular picture and the age issue. Sections of the native management are strongly in opposition to such a transfer as it will imply projecting him as the following chief ministerial candidate. 

  • Mix of recent and skilled faces, regional aspirations and big slayers: Here are probables in Pinarayi Vijayan 2.0 cabinet

    Balancing regional aspirations, inducting a mixture of skilled and recent faces, placating new allies and rewarding big slayers – the CPM-led Left Democratic Front, which swept to energy in Kerala with a two-thirds majority, has to contemplate many elements to design the brand new cabinet for Pinarayi Vijayan 2.0.
    On Tuesday, the CPM state secretariat will meet on the AKG Centre in Thiruvananthapuram, kicking off the method to kind the brand new authorities. It will full its formality of electing Vijayan as the top of the legislature get together and the subsequent authorities. Other events within the coalition just like the CPI, KC(M), JD(S), NCP and people with single MLAs are additionally anticipated to convene their respective state leaderships to appoint candidates for the cabinet. This will probably be adopted by the LDF assembly within the state capital to debate the electoral consequence, study the place it went mistaken and finalise on the cabinet.
    In the earlier authorities, the LDF had 19 ministers excluding Vijayan of which 11 belonged to the CPM, 4 from the CPI and one every from the NCP, JD(S), Congress (S) and an Independent. Unlike the Oommen Chandy-led UDF authorities, which had a Home Minister, Vijayan himself dealt with the house ministry alongside different tasks. He had come below extreme hearth from the Opposition for a slew of police excesses and custodial killings. In Vijayan 2.0, the CPM might go for a full-time house minister.
    Two leaders who’re assured to have a spot within the new cabinet are outgoing Health Minister KK Shailaja and senior CPM chief and central committee member MV Govindan.
    Shailaja, who emerged victorious from the Mattannur constituency in Kannur district with a file margin of over 60,000 votes eclipsing Vijayan’s margin, is predicted to proceed within the well being and little one welfare portfolio, having been lauded for her work within the first time period.
    Govindan to be No. 2
    Govindan, elected from the get together stronghold of Thaliparambu in the identical district, spent lengthy years within the organisation and has performed a key function in shaping the get together organisation and its core ideological values within the state. Govindan, thought of near the chief minister, is predicted to deliver expertise and maturity into the federal government.
    Another title doing the rounds extensively is Ok Radhakrishnan, MLA from Chelakkara and one of many get together’s well-liked leaders in Thrissur district. Radhakrishnan, who represented the seat repeatedly from 1996 until 2016, served as Speaker of the Kerala Assembly between 2006 and 2011 and was a minister for SC/ST and Youth affairs within the authorities headed by EK Nayanar from 1996 until 2001.
    Kerala Health Minister KK Shailaja
    CPM’s second-line chief to the fore
    As a part of bringing recent faces into the cabinet and thereby stringing collectively a second-line of management throughout the CPM, the get together is slated to provide alternatives to leaders like P Rajeev, KN Balagopal and MB Rajesh, all of whom have wealthy parliamentary expertise.
    In truth, a senior CPM chief advised the Indian Express in the course of the marketing campaign that the prized finance portfolio is more likely to go to both P Rajeev or Balagopal. TM Thomas Isaac, the outgoing finance minister and a vocal member within the state GST council, didn’t contest elections this time as a result of get together’s strict two-term norm for MLAs. Since each Rajeev and Balagopal have had stints within the Rajya Sabha, they’re geared up to deliberate with the Centre on key points and foyer arduous for Kerala’s wants.
    In truth, so lively was Rajeev within the Rajya Sabha that late BJP chief and former finance minister Arun Jaitley had even beneficial his return to the Rajya Sabha. Another benefit for him is that he’s an MLA from Kalamassery, an erstwhile Muslim League stronghold, in Ernakulam district. Since the district was not represented within the cabinet final time, Rajeev is predicted to get a leg-up. He can also be the current editor-in-chief of Deshabhimani, the CPM’s mouthpiece within the state.
    To stability regional and neighborhood aspirations, the LDF could have to remember illustration from every of the 14 districts in addition to outstanding communities like Nair, Ezhava, Christian and Muslim sections.
    While Kadakampally Surendran, the outgoing temple affairs minister, was the consultant from Thiruvananthpuram district, this time, the CPM might reward V Sivankutty, the large killer who wrested BJP’s sole seat Nemom. This manner, the get together goals to hit two birds with one stone.
    As for the CPI, it’d go for recent faces this time contemplating just one minister within the outgoing cabinet – E Chandrasekharan from Kanhangad – had contested elections and received. J Chinjurani, a girl MLA from Chadayamangalam, PS Supal from Punalur and P Prasad from Cherthala are amongst these more likely to get the nod for the cabinet.
    Jameela set to be first girl Muslim mantri
    In addition to Shailaja, Chinjurani may very well be the second girl minister. In recognition of the huge assist amongst ladies, the LDF might even search for a 3rd girl minister. In that case, Kanathil Jameela from Koyilandy and Veena George from Aranmula are favourites. If Jameela is picked, she may very well be Kerala’s first girl Muslim minister.
    The LDF may also must accommodate its new allies KC(M) and LJD together with others like JD(S) and NCP. KC(M), headed by Jose Ok Mani, received 5 out of the 12 it contested and will press for 2 cabinet berths. If Jose had received from Pala phase, he would have discovered a spot within the cabinet. Instead, Roshy Augustine from Idukki and N Jayaraj from Kanjirappally are favourites. From JD (S), Mathew T Thomas, thought of near the chief minister, is the favorite.

  • Kerala elections: Here’s the vote share of LDF, UDF, NDA

    How did the three fronts fare in every district? TNIE takes a take a look at their total vote share in all of the districts.  

    Published: 04th May 2021 03:28 AM  |  

    Last Updated: 04th May 2021 03:28 AM

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