Summary:
Jayarajan is all set to return to the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet as Industries Minister. Mr.
Balakrishnan said A.C.
Moideen, who now holds the Industries portfolio, would be allotted Local Administration covering both urban and village local bodies, and Rural Development. Mr.
Balakrishnan hinted at the possibility of the CPI, the second largest constituent of the LDF, being given the Government Chief Whip post with Cabinet rank. Briefing reporters after a meeting of the CPI(M) State committee in Thiruvananthapuram, party State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said the State committee had decided to recommend to the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Mr.
Jayarajan's re-induction into the Cabinet and return the Industries portfolio to him. Even after Mr.
Jayarajan's re-induction, the size of the Cabinet would be only 20, one less than that of the last United Democratic Front (UDF) government, he pointed out..