View: Leave poor Shailaja Teacher alone SECTIONS Share Synopsis 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. Agencies Shailaja Teacher’s omission from the Cabinet reflects both Vijayan’s dominance in the party and of the dominance falling short of unquestioned authority.