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When the caller United Democratic Front (UDF) government’s 21-member Cabinet, led by V.D. Satheesan, assumed bureau connected Monday (May 18, 2026), 1 happening which seems to person caused overmuch unhappiness amongst galore Congress leaders is the information that 3 districts person got nary Ministers.
After juggling galore permutations and combinations arsenic good arsenic determination considerations, erstwhile the UDF finalised its Cabinet members, Kasaragod, Idukki and Pathanamthitta were near with perfectly nary Ministerial representation, adjacent though these were each districts wherever the UDF performed highly well.
However, immoderate districts similar Ernakulam, Malappuram and Kollam person 3 Ministers each; too the Chief Minister correspond the Paravur constituency successful Ernakulam.
Congress MP from Kasaragod Rajmohan Unnithan had openly expressed his choler and disappointment astatine the “neglect” meted retired to Kasaragod, wherever successful the Assembly elections the UDF had pulled disconnected a historical performance. The UDF had won 4 seats successful the district, with large breakthroughs successful galore constituencies similar Thrikkarippur and Uduma, which person been Left bastions for long. Mr. Unnithan had pointed retired that Kasaragod had been overlooked successful the past Pinarayi authorities arsenic good and that the territory lagged down others successful galore areas, including wellness and infrastructure.
In Idukki, the UDF had a cleanable sweep, winning each 5 seats. In Pathanamthitta too, the conjugation won 4 retired of the 5 seats. However, these districts bash not find a spot successful the V.D. Satheesan Cabinet.
Moreover, Kozhikode, different territory wherever the UDF swept the polls, winning 12 retired of the 13 seats, volition lone get practice successful the 2nd fractional of the caller government’s term, erstwhile Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) volition edifice to a rotation of its elder MLAs.
Workers disappointed
Partyworkers from Kozhikode and Kasaragod, who had gathered successful ample numbers astatine the Central Stadium connected Monday, were precise vocal astir their disappointment successful not getting Ministers to correspond their districts.
In Kozhikode, the Congress won 5 seats, the IUML, six seats and the Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) retained its lone seat.
M.K. Raghavan, Congress MP from Kozhikode, said that helium was disappointed that neither the Congress nor the IUML could springiness a Minister for Kozhikode. Though IUML’s Parakkal Abdullah from Kuttiyadi had been expected to correspond Kozhikode successful the V.D. Satheesan Cabinet, pursuing the last-minute propulsion for Eranad MLA P.K. Basheer’s inclusion successful the Cabinet, the IUML announced that Mr. Abdullah would beryllium brought into the Cabinet connected a “term basis,” aft two-and-a-half years.
