First Chandy ministry

Following is the list of 20 government ministers serving under Oommen Chandy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Kerala, from August 2004 through May 2006.[1]

MinisterMinistry
1Oommen ChandyChief Minister (Also in charge of Home affairs)
2V. K. EbrahimkunjuMinister for Industries
3K. M. ManiMinister for Revenue
4M. K. MuneerMinister for Public Works
5-Vakkom PurushothamanMinister for Finance
6K. R. Gouri AmmaMinister for Agriculture
7M. V. RaghavanMinister for Co-operation
8Aryadan MuhammedMinister for electricity
9Babu DivakaranMinister for Labour and Employment
10Thiruvanchoor RadhakrishnanMinister for Water Resources
11N. SakthanMinister for Transport
12K. C. VenugopalMinister for tourism and devaswom
13C. F. ThomasMinister for Rural Development
14K P ViswanathanMinister for Forestry
15E. T. Muhammed BasheerMinister for Education
16K K Ramachandran MasterMinister for Health
17A. P. Anil KumarMinister for Cultural Affairs and Backward Caste Development
18Kutty Ahammed KuttyMinister for Local Self Government
19Adoor PrakashMinister for Food
20Dominic PresentationMinister for fisheries
21A. SujanapalMinister for forestry

Trivia

Oommen Chandy was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Kerala on 31 August 2004 after the controversial resignation of A. K. Antony on 29 August. All ministers in the previous Antony government except K.M. Mani, P.K. Kunjalikkutty, K.R. Gowri Amma, M.V. Raghavan, Dr. M.K. Muneer, Babu Divakaran and C.F. Thomas were ousted. Kunjalikkutty resigned on 31 December 2004, after finding himself guilty in the notorious Ice Cream Parlour Scandal. He was succeeded by his colleague V.K. Ibrahim Kunju the next day (1 January 2005). K.P. Viswanathan, who handled the department of Forests, resigned on 9 February 2005 after a series of scandals, and A. Sujanapal succeeded him on 4 January 2006. In the interval, the CM himself handled the department of Forests.

See also

References
  1. "Council of Ministers - Kerala". Kerala Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 20 December 2009.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.