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After interior wranglings and shuffling of departments betwixt assorted Ministers, the recently elected United Democratic Front (UDF) authorities connected Wednesday evening notified the Cabinet portfolios.
Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan volition beryllium handling a full of 35 portfolios, including the cardinal departments of Finance, Law, and Ports, signalling a imaginable attraction of powers.
The portfolio announcements came 2 days aft the swearing-in ceremonial of the caller government, with delays being attributed to some intra-party arsenic good arsenic inter-party differences wrong the UDF.
One of the cardinal issues which held up the authoritative notification of the portfolios was with respect to the Fisheries portfolio, which volition present beryllium held by V.E. Abdul Gafoor of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
The Latin Catholic Church was keen connected the Congress keeping the Fisheries portfolio. The IUML was acceptable to portion with the section lone if the Congress spared the Higher Education department.
Even arsenic the negotiations were ongoing Mr. Satheesan had paid a sojourn to Thiruvananthapuram Archbishop Thomas J. Netto connected Monday. The Chief Minister said that it was simply a courtesy call, erstwhile asked astir the sojourn astatine a property league connected Wednesday. In the end, the speech of portfolios did not hap arsenic Congress person Roji M. John kept the Higher Education portfolio.
Senior Congress person Ramesh Chennithala, who was reluctant to articulation the Cabinet aft losing retired successful the three-way contention to the Chief Minister post, volition beryllium holding Home, Vigilance, Fire and Rescue Services, Prisons and Coir.
Sunny Joseph, who was earlier tipped to clasp the Revenue portfolio, volition present clasp Electricity, Environment and Parliamentary Affairs. Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) person Shibu Baby John volition beryllium holding Forest and Wildlife Protection. While astatine the Centre, the portfolios of Environment and Forest are held by the aforesaid Minister, successful Kerala, it has been held by antithetic Ministers successful the erstwhile word too.
Revenue for Anil Kumar
A.P. Anil Kumar volition clasp the cardinal portfolio of Revenue, portion K. Muraleedharan volition beryllium the Minister for Health arsenic good arsenic Devaswom. The Labour department, which was initially considered for 1 of the confederation partners, volition present beryllium held by Bindhu Krishna, who volition besides beryllium the Minister for Animal Husbandry.
Earlier astatine a property conference, Mr. Satheesan had besides rubbished reports of hold successful finalising the portfolios. He said that the database of portfolios was acceptable by Monday nighttime aft the swearing-in ceremony, but the Governor did not instrumentality to the State superior till Tuesday night. The database was handed implicit to the Governor connected Wednesday morning, helium said.
