The politics of family affairs in the Kerala Cabinet

Politics being household affairs has go truthful communal successful India that it seldom raises eyebrows these days. Several members of the V.D. Satheesan Cabinet which took complaint connected Monday besides travel with beardown household legacies successful Kerala politics.

Congress Minister K. Muraleedharan is the lad of the precocious K. Karunakaran, the Congress seasoned who was Chief Minister of Kerala connected 4 occasions. Mr. Muraleedharan is simply a erstwhile president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). Although helium was appointed Power Minister successful the A.K. Antony Ministry successful 2004 contempt not being an MLA, helium had to resign erstwhile helium mislaid the by-election from Wadakancherry. His sister Padmaja Venugopal had made quality erstwhile she near the Congress to articulation the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Shibu Baby John is the lad of the precocious Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) supremo Baby John, who was erstwhile known arsenic the ‘Kerala Kissinger.’ Mr. Shibu Baby John, who represents the RSP successful Mr. Satheesan’s Ministry, had served arsenic Labour Minister successful the 2011-2016 Oommen Chandy-led UDF Ministry.

P.K. Basheer, 1 of the 5 Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) Ministers successful the Cabinet, is the lad of the noted IUML person and erstwhile Chief Whip P. Seethi Haji. Mr. Haji had represented the Kondotty Assembly constituency implicit 4 presumption and Tanur, once.

Anoop Jacob is the lad of erstwhile Minister T.M. Jacob, who had led the ‘Jacob’ faction of the Kerala Congress and was a highly respected legislator during his lifetime. Mr. Anoop Jacob, who was Minister for Food and Civil Supplies successful the Oommen Chandy Ministry, erstwhile again represents the Kerala Congress (Jacob) successful the UDF Cabinet.

V.E. Abdul Gafoor, a caller look successful the UDF Cabinet, is the lad of erstwhile Minister and IUML person V.K. Ibrahim Kunju. Mr. Ibrahim Kunju was Minister for Industries successful the 2005-2006 Oommen Chandy Ministry and Minister for Public Works successful the 2011-2016 Ministry led by Mr. Chandy.

K.A. Thulasi, different first-time Minister, is the woman of V.K. Sreekandan, the Congress MP successful the Lok Sabha. A first-time MLA, Ms. Thulasi had wrested the Kongad constituency from the CPI(M) successful the 2026 Assembly polls.

Apu John Joseph, who is to beryllium the caller Chief Whip, is the lad of Kerala Congress seasoned P.J. Joseph. The erstwhile present represents Thodupuzha, the constituency which his begetter had represented successful the Kerala Assembly for a agelong time.