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Congress person K. Muraleedharan connected Friday (May 15, 2026) said elder person Ramesh Chennithala should beryllium included successful the Kerala Cabinet, adding that the enactment enactment is successful interaction with him.
Speaking to reporters aft visiting the Sreekrishna temple here, Mr. Muraleedharan said V.D. Satheesan was chosen for the Chief Minister’s station aft wide consultations with Congress MLAs, MPs and elder leaders, including erstwhile KPCC presidents.
“There was a wide nationalist sentiment successful favour of Mr. Satheesan arsenic Chief Minister adjacent earlier the elections. People successful my constituency continued to explicit their enactment for him aft the polls. Considering these factors, the last determination was made,” helium said.
On Mr. Chennithala’s Cabinet entry, helium said the precocious bid would instrumentality a determination aft discussions with him. He described Mr. Chennithala arsenic a disciplined Congressman who has ever accepted enactment decisions.
“I recognize that Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge person spoken to him. The Cabinet needs a idiosyncratic similar him,” helium added.
Rejecting allegations that Mr. Satheesan’s enactment was influenced by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), Mr. Muraleedharan said it was a communicative pushed by the CPI(M), which could not judge its electoral defeat.
He besides took a swipe astatine critics, saying leaders who had “secretly” approached the Panakkad household were present blaming the Congress, and added that the BJP is improbable to summation crushed successful Kerala.
Mr. Muraleedharan said the Congress remains a antiauthoritarian enactment wherever immoderate differences implicit ministerial enactment would yet beryllium resolved by the precocious bid and accepted by all.
He besides clarified that helium has ne'er demanded a ministerial berth.
On Pinarayi Vijayan becoming the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Muraleedharan said it would payment the UDF.
“When helium was Chief Minister, we won 102 seats. If helium becomes the Leader of the Opposition, we volition expanse each the Assembly seats. But we ever judge successful having a beardown Opposition,” helium said. Mr. Muraleedharan aboriginal paid floral tribute astatine the memorials of parents – K. Karunakaran and Kalyanikutty Amma – astatine Murali Mandiram, Punkunnam, Thrissur.
