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The Communist Party of India (CPI) has nominated four ministers and a deputy speaker to the new LDF government that will be sworn-in on Thursday. The CPI ministers in the new government will be K Rajan, P Prasad, J Chinchurani and GR Anil. Chittayam Gopakumar has also been nominated for the post of Deputy Speaker.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to have a decisive say in the matter.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretariat will convene in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday to settle the allocation of cabinet portfolios to Kerala’s Minister-designates.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan would have a decisive say in the matter. The CPI(M) State committee had tasked him with dividing the 21 cabinet posts among the party’s ministerial candidates and Left Democratic Front (LDF) allies.
As a prelude to cabinet formation, Mr. Vijayan had met Kerala Governor Arif Muhammad Khan on Tuesday evening and handed over the letter appointing Mr. Vijayan as parliamentary party leader of the CPI(M). The CPI(M) is the single largest party in the next Assembly with 62 legislators.
Kerala’s new LDF Cabinet portfolio allocation heads to finality
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The JD(S) gets Power ministry and the INL is allocated Ports
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The CPI(M) was yet to make a formal announcement about its Ministers. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT
The JD(S) gets Power ministry and the INL is allocated Ports
At least two Left Democratic Front (LDF) allies have given the media an inkling of the direction of Cabinet portfolio allocation talks under way behind closed-doors at the AKG Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
K. Krishnankutty, Janata Dal (S) legislator from Chittoor in Palakkad, told reporters waiting outside the CPI(M) State headquarters that the party leadership had assigned him the Electricity Department. He said discussions were on with other allies. Cabinet post-sharing would soon reach finality.
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Barring the Chief Minister, K Krishnankutty of JD-S and A K Saseendran of NCP, the Water Resources and Transport Ministers respectively in the previous LDF government, are the only old faces in the new ministry. Both CPI-M and CPI, the major partners in the ruling coalition, opted not to retain any of their ministers from the previous government.
This is Vijayan s second stint as Chief Minister.
The second Pinarayi Vijayan government, which comes to power bucking the four- decade-old trend of alternate front rule in Kerala, will have a 21-member-strong cabinet with a handful of first-time legislators and three women members, the highest in recent time.