Manathavady, Kerala: Kerala will get its first tribal minister, a woman, if Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who is leaving for New Delhi on Thursday, gets the high command's approval, party sources said.
P.K. Jayalekhsmi, 29, the Congress legislator from Mananthavady in Waynad district, is the only woman in the 38-member Congress legislature party list that the chief minister and state party president Ramesh Chennithala are carrying with them, a top Congress source said on Wednesday.
Chandy, along with leaders of the six allies of the United Democratic Front (UDF), was sworn in here Wednesday by Governor R.S. Gavai.
Mananthavady is a constituency reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates.
The other ministerial hopefuls are Aryadan Mohammed, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, V.D. Satishan, K. Babu, K. Muraleedharan, V.S. Sivakumar, Adoor Prakash, A.P. Anil Kumar, C.N. Balakrishnan, T.N. Prathapan, K.C. Joseph and Sakthan Nadar, the sources said.
P.K. Jayalekhsmi, 29, the Congress legislator from Mananthavady in Waynad district, is the only woman in the 38-member Congress legislature party list that the chief minister and state party president Ramesh Chennithala are carrying with them, a top Congress source said on Wednesday.
Chandy, along with leaders of the six allies of the United Democratic Front (UDF), was sworn in here Wednesday by Governor R.S. Gavai.
Mananthavady is a constituency reserved for Scheduled Tribe candidates.
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The other ministerial hopefuls are Aryadan Mohammed, Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, V.D. Satishan, K. Babu, K. Muraleedharan, V.S. Sivakumar, Adoor Prakash, A.P. Anil Kumar, C.N. Balakrishnan, T.N. Prathapan, K.C. Joseph and Sakthan Nadar, the sources said.
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