Third Nayanar ministry

The Tenth Kerala Legislative Assembly Council of Ministers, third E. K. Nayanar ministry, was a Kerala Council of Ministers (Kerala Cabinet), the executive wing of Kerala state government, led by CPI (M) leader E. K. Nayanar from May 1996 to May 2001. It had sixteen ministries, and overall twenty ministers.

The Kerala Council of Ministers, during Nayanar's third term as Chief Minister of Kerala, consisted of:[1]

Ministers
MinisterMinistryNotes
1E. K. NayanarChief Minister (Also had the charge of Home Department)
2T. Sivadasa MenonMinister for Finance
3aPinarayi VijayanMinister for Electricity and Co-operationresigned 19 October 1998
3bS. SharmaMinister for Electricity and Co-operationassumed office 25 October 1998
4aBaby JohnMinister for Irrigation and Labourresigned 7 January 1998
4bV. P. Ramakrishna PillaiMinister for Irrigation and Labourassumed office 7 January 1998
5E. Chandrasekharan NairMinister for Food, Tourism and Law
6aA. C. ShanmughadasMinister for Health and Sportsresigned 19 January 2000
6bV. C. KabeerMinister for Health and Sportsassumed office 19 January 2000
7K. RadhakrishnanMinister for Welfare of Backward
and Scheduled communities
8aV. K. RajanMinister for Agriculturedied in office 29 May 1997
8bKrishnan KaniyamparampilMinister for Agricultureassumed office 9 June 1997
9T. K. RamakrishnanMinister for Fisheries and Rural Development
10aP. R. KurupMinister for Forests and Transportresigned 11 January 1999
10bA. Neelalohitha Dasan NadarMinister for Forests and Transportassumed office 20 January 1999
resigned 13 February 2000
10cC. K. NanuMinister for Forests and Transportassumed office 13 February 2000
11K. E. IsmailMinister for Revenue
12P. J. JosephMinister for Education and Public Works
13Paloli Muhammed KuttyMinister for Local Administration
14Susheela GopalanMinister for Industries and Social Welfare

Trivia

This was the third and last term of E. K. Nayanar as the Chief Minister, and the only one in which he completed full term as chief minister. He did not contest in the 1996 Legislative elections, and V. S. Achuthanandan, another senior Communist leader, was designated as the Chief Minister candidate. When the election results came, the Left Democratic Front won the majority of seats, but Achuthanandan lost. In this special situation, a meeting was held by the CPI (M), which unanimously supported Nayanar as the Chief Minister. When Nayanar left the office after completing his term in May 2001, he had become the longest served Chief Minister of Kerala, serving for 4009 days in total.

See also

References
  1. "Council of Ministers since 1957 – Tenth Kerala Legislative Assembly". Government of Kerala. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013.
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