Live Updates: Pinarayi Vijayan to be sworn in as Kerala CM today,Kerala CM Swearing-in, Pinarayi Vijayan Oath, Pinarayi Vijayan, Sitaram Yechury , Prakash Karat, CPI(M) ,Left Democratic Front, Kerala ,Kerala latest news updates 2016
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Live Updates: Pinarayi Vijayan to be sworn in as Kerala CM today,Kerala CM Swearing-in, Pinarayi Vijayan Oath, Pinarayi Vijayan,Sitaram Yechury ,Prakash Karat, CPI(M) ,Left Democratic Front, Kerala,Kerala latest news updates 2016
Seventy two-year-old Pinarayi Vijayan will be sworn in as chief minister for Kerala on Wednesday, bringing the Left Democratic Front (LDF) back to power after five years.Though the outgoing Oomen Chandy government had 21 ministers, the LDF has decided to keep its strength to 19 as a part of austerity measures.
Live Highlights:
- Pinarayi Vijayan takes oath along with 19-member Cabinet.
- CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan takes oath as Kerala chief minister.
- The CPM or Communist Party of India-Marxist will have 12 ministers, the Communist Party of India or CPI will have four and three other LDF constituents - the Janata Dal-S, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress-S - will have one each. Last week, the LDF wrested Kerala back from the Oomen Chandy-led Congress
- He will take oath along with 19 other ministers at the central stadium in Kerala's capital Thiruvananthapuram. The ceremony is expected to draw around 40,000 people.
- The son of a toddy tapper, Mr Vijayan was picked to be chief minister over Mr Achuthanandan, the CPM's star campaigner, primarily because he is younger, the party explained. Mr Vijayan is 72, 20 years younger than 93-year-old Mr Achuthanandan.
- The new government will be sworn in at 4 pm today at the Central stadium in Thiruvananthapuram and people from various walks of life would attend.
- After the swearing-in, the first cabinet would meet by around 6.30 pm, he said. Mr Vijayan adding he had not yet received the list of all the ministers and would meet the state Governor this morning after the list was ready.
- CPI(M) General Secretary, Sitaram Yechury and the party's member, Prakash Karat, will attend the swearing-in ceremony.
- The CPM will have 12 berths, followed by the Communist Party of India with four, while the Janata Dal (Secular), Nationalist Congress Party and Congress (Socialist) will get one each.
Pinarayi will be sworn in along with his 18-member ministry at the central stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led LDF won the May 16 assembly election, winning 91 of 140 seats in the state assembly. The incumbent Congress-led United Democratic Front was ousted by the electorate in keeping with the state’s anti-incumbency trend.
Though the outgoing Oomen Chandy government had 21 ministers, the LDF has decided to keep its strength to 19 as a part of austerity measures.
Pinarayi slowly but gradually took control of CPM in Kerala by sidelining or forcing out dissenters systematically.
The longest serving state secretary (1998-2015), he now comes back to power after a long gap.