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NEW DELHI: V D Satheesan took oath arsenic Kerala main minister connected Monday astatine the Central Stadium successful Thiruvananthapuram, marking the instrumentality of the Congress-led United Democratic Front to powerfulness aft a decade.Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar administered the oath of bureau to Satheesan and his 20-member assembly of ministers. Meanwhile, 14 ministers successful the caller furniture are first-time ministers.Congress main Mallikarjun Kharge on with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on with respective leaders from Congress-ruled states, attended the ceremony. Outgoing main curate Pinarayi Vijayan and BJP person Rajeev Chandrasekhar were besides contiguous connected stage, with Satheesan greeting leaders crossed enactment lines aft taking oath.The caller furniture includes elder Congress figures specified arsenic Ramesh Chennithala, K Muraleedharan and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee main Sunny Joseph. The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has 5 ministers successful the government, including P K Kunhalikutty, K M Shaji, P K Basheer, N Shamsudheen and V E Abdul Gafoor.Other ministers see Mons Joseph, Shibu Baby John, Anoop Jacob, C P John, A P Anilkumar, T Siddique, P C Vishnunadh, Roji M John, Bindhu Krishna, M Lijju, K A Thulasi and O J Janeesh.
Satheesan besides announced Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan arsenic Speaker, Shanimol Usman arsenic Deputy Speaker and Apu John Joseph arsenic Government Chief Whip.The UDF secured a decisive mandate successful the assembly elections, winning 102 of Kerala’s 140 seats. Congress emerged arsenic the single-largest enactment with 63 seats, portion the IUML won 22. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) was reduced to 35 seats, portion the BJP won 3 constituencies.Satheesan, wide credited with starring the Congress comeback successful Kerala aft 2 successive LDF terms, emerged arsenic the main ministerial prime aft aggravated interior deliberations wrong the Congress. The party’s cardinal enactment had reportedly favoured Congress wide caput K C Venugopal for the post, but beardown backing from grassroots workers, the IUML and nationalist sentiment yet tilted the determination successful Satheesan’s favour.
