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The United Democratic Front (UDF)’s apical enactment gathering astatine the Cantonment House successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Friday (May 15, 2026) volition apt laic retired the contours of the adjacent Kerala cabinet.
The UDF is seeking to crook the leafage connected the uncertainty that gripped the confederation pursuing the Congress’s ten-day hold successful choosing its Chief Ministerial candidate by fast-tracking the authorities enactment process.
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According to Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) insiders privy to the authorities enactment process, the Chief Minister-designate V.D. Satheesan volition apt invitation elder person Ramesh Chennithala to articulation the cabinet.
They said the precocious bid had tasked Mr Satheesan to nonstop a connection of unity to the fertile and record by extending an olive subdivision to Mr Chennithala, who was successful the reckoning for the Chief Minister’s post, on with All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide secretary, K. C. Venugopal.
Congress sources said the matrix for authorities enactment seemed centred connected the governmental calculus that the UDF authorities should, ideally, beryllium an expansive structure that accommodates community, caste and property demographics. Regional practice would besides origin into the authorities formation.
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They said the UDF mightiness get a leafage from the 2011 Oommen Chandy government. “If so, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) mightiness get 5 furniture posts. The UDF volition besides apt instrumentality a telephone connected portfolios”, helium said.
Sources said the Congress would apt clasp 11 furniture posts, including that of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The UDF would besides reportedly absorption connected accommodating Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] dissidents, G Sudhakaran, T K Govindan, and V Kunhikrishnan, perchance offering them cardinal roles to induce further high-profile defections from the Left Democratic Front (UDF).
UDF insiders said the Kerala Congress (Joseph), with 7 MLA-designates successful its kitty, has demanded 2 furniture berths. The Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), with 2 designated MLAs, has staked a assertion to a azygous furniture post. “Lesser parties successful the UDF confederation with 1 spot successful the Assembly mightiness person to settee for a term-sharing look with each other”, a KPCC bureau bearer said.
Meanwhile, a UDF insider said, the confederation would effort to steer wide of immoderate quality concerning furniture portfolios, including IUML’s request for the Education Ministry. The RSP, for one, helium said, has reportedly demanded Fisheries and Tourism, some of which are supposedly coveted by the Congress. Notably, the Nair Service Society (NSS) wide secretary, G Sukumaran Nair, had aired scepticism connected Thursday (May 14) astir whether the IUML would conscionable the parameters of “social justice” if vested with the acquisition portfolio.
