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Swearing-in of Pinarayi Vijayan govt on May 20, to have 21 member cabinet ANI | Updated: May 17, 2021 15:11 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], May 17 (ANI): Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) s acting state secretary and Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener A Vijayaraghavan on Monday said that the Kerala government will have a 21-member cabinet.
He added that the swearing-in ceremony will be conducted on May 20 with a limited number of people in view of the COVID-19 situation in the state.
Speaking to media persons after the LDF meet to decide on cabinet berths, Vijayaraghavan said that CPI(M) would have 12 ministerial berths while four have been given to CPI and one each for Kerala Congress (M), Janata Dal (S) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Move created impression among Hindus, Christians that he was eyeing Deputy CM post
The return of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P.K. Kunhalikutty to State politics seems to have damaged the electoral prospects of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in several districts in the just-concluded Assembly poll.
The decision created an impression in the majority Hindu community as well as the minority Christian community that Mr. Kunhalikutty was aiming for the post of the Deputy Chief Minister if the Congress-led front came to power in the State. Besides, it triggered an apprehension that the IUML would overwhelm the UDF before long during the five-year tenure.
LJD sees CPI(M) betrayal in Kalpetta, Vadakara
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Candidates had unsuccessfully contested from rival camp last time
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Candidates had unsuccessfully contested from rival camp last time
Embarrassed by the outcome of the Assembly polls, the top leadership of the Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) has pinned the blame on the local cadres of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] for the defeat of its candidates in Kalpetta and Vadakara Assembly segments.
Apart from many factors that led to the loss of these two sitting seats of the Left Democratic Front, a senior functionary of the party said that the local CPI(M) workers had been dispirited by the candidacies of State president M.V. Shreyams Kumar and Kozhikode district president Manayath Chandran in Kalpetta and Vadakara respectively. Both had unsuccessfully contested from these constituencies as Janata Dal (United) nominees in the Congress-led United Democratic Front camp the last time.
Gouri Amma: An icon and inspiration for women in Kerala
May 11, 2021
Leaders across the political class paid glowing tributes to her indomitable spirit
KR Gouri (affectionately called Gouriamma), who passed away on Tuesday in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 102, was a female communist icon and an inspiration for generations of Kerala women.
Falling out of favour of both the party and ideology in 1994 was only an aberration and it did not cost her a wee bit of the adulation she commanded in the public domain. Not even after the fringe party that she founded would come apart in phases before her own eyes.