Even before the dust from the government’s tumultuous 36-day political odyssey from the halls of power in the government secretariat to town halls in 140 legislative assembly constituencies (Navkerala Sadas) barely settled, the Left Democratic State (LDF) State committee engineered a major reshuffle in the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet.
LDF convenor E.P. Jayarajan, who chaired the State committee meeting on Sunday, told newspersons that the second Pinarayi Vijayan Government, which came to power in 2021, had promised Cabinet berths to four allies with single MLAs in the Assembly on two-and-a-half-year sharing-term basis ending in November.
As per the understanding, Transport Minister Antony Raju of the Democratic Kerala Congress would quit office in favour of Kerala Congress (B) leader K. B. Ganesh Kumar.
