Ex-Journalist Veena George To Replace KK Shailaja As Kerala Health Minister
KK Shailaja, the face of Kerala’s fight against Nipah and Covid-19, was dropped as health minister.
Outlook Web Bureau 19 May 2021, Last Updated at 4:36 pm
For the first time in its history, a woman journalist-turned politician will become a minister in Kerala. Outlook Web Bureau 2021-05-19T16:33:31+05:30 Ex-Journalist Veena George To Replace KK Shailaja As Kerala Health Minister outlookindia.com 2021-05-19T16:36:03+05:30
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CPI(MP) leader and MLA Veena George will most likely be replacing KK Shailaja as the new health minister of Kerala. On May 18, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Pinarayi Vijayan selected his cabinet, but dropped Shailaja, the face of Kerala’s fight against Nipah and Covid-19 during her stint as health minister.
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Veena George is a rank holder of MSc (Physics) and BEd.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan s decision to drop KK Shailaja from his new cabinet had come under severe criticism from all quarters. Shailaja s handling of Covid pandemic as the state health minister was widely applauded and it was believed Vijayan would give her a second term. However, he decided against going by the no-repeat cabinet policy.Â
According to sources, CPI(M) member Veena George is likely to get the health ministry in Vijayan s new team. If George takes oath as a minister, she would be the first woman journalist-turned politician to do so in Kerala s history. Vijayan and his new cabinet will be sworn-in on Thursday, May 20.Â
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In her journalism career of over one-and-a-half decades in television, George had excelled as a journalist and news anchor
Veena George. (Facebook/@veenageorgeofficial)
Pathanamthitta: For the first time in its history, a woman journalist-turned politician, Veena George, will become a minister in Kerala and latest reports indicate that George is set to replace none other than Kerala s much-acclaimed ex-Health Minister KK Shailaja.
This is the second time George is elected to Assembly, that too from the same Aranmula seat she was elected for the first time in 2016. In 2019 however, she failed to make a mark in the election to the lower house of Parliament. George won with a margin of 19,003 votes this time, whereas in 2016 polls, she had wrested the constituency from the Congress, defeating the nearest rival Sivadasan Nair by a margin of 7,646 votes.
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