Kerala Set to Get New CM; Congress to Hold CLP Meet Today
Thiruvananthapuram: More than 10 days after the Assembly election results were declared, Kerala is set to get its chief minister on Thursday and the Congress is expected to announce the name of its party leader in the legislature in the meeting of newly elected party MLAs at the KPCC headquarters here in the afternoon. The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting to be held on May 14 at 1 pm was announced a day ago by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph.
The announcement came after the Congress high command said that the state’s next chief minister would be announced on Thursday after several days of talks with party leaders in the southern state.
Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh conveyed this after a meeting with Rahul Gandhi at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence in New Delhi.
The Congress-led UDF won a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party failed to decide on its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by ground-level workers.
AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, outgoing Leader of Opposition in Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan and senior party leader Ramesh Chennithala are among the prominent names being considered for the post.
