The 140 newly-elected Kerala legislators will take oath on Friday to officially enter the 15th Legislative Assembly of the southern state.The oath will be read out by the pro-term Speaker, who will be decided by the new Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet .
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Shailaja Teacher is a dutiful comrade, who does a good job of the task she is given. That is about it. She is not a mass leader, she does not command a devoted following within the party, and she is not even remotely close to challenging Vijayan’s leadership. She was not renominated as minister, to comply with a rule that Vijayan had set while choosing candidates: to have a two-term cap for MLAs, and to have fresh faces as ministers.
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Shailaja Teacher’s omission from the Cabinet reflects both Vijayan’s dominance in the party and of the dominance falling short of unquestioned authority.
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3 MLAs from Kozhikode likely to get Cabinet berths
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CPI(M) State secretariat meeting considering induction of new faces
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CPI(M) State secretariat meeting considering induction of new faces Balancing coalition politics and regional aspirations, Kozhikode is likely to get three ministers in the new Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet this time.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat which met at the AKG Centre in the State capital on Tuesday weighed the induction of new faces from among its legislators.
Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) national president P.A. Mohammed Riyas, who won from the Beypore Assembly segment, stands a reasonable chance of representing the district in the State Cabinet.