In a first, a father-in-law and son-in-law duo will make their presence felt collectively in the Kerala Assembly quickly and thus script a new chapter in its decades-long historical past. The 77-year outdated father-in-law is nobody apart from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan whereas the fortunate son-in-law is P A Mohammed Riyas, nationwide president of the Democratic Youth Federation.
Riyas is the husband of Vijayan’s daughter Veena, an IT entrepreneur based mostly in Bengaluru. While Vijayan gained by a whopping margin of over 50,000 votes from his residence turf Dharmadam in Kannur district, the 44 -year outdated Riyas acquired elected from Beypore, a Left bastion in Kozhikode.
Though the state Assembly had a legacy of accommodating sons and daughters of varied politicians in these years, it’s for the primary time that a father-in-law and son-in-law are collectively turning into a part of the House. A vibrant youth chief, Riyas had earlier unsuccessfully contested in 2009 Lok Sabha polls from Kozhikode.
Veena and Riyas acquired married at Cliff House, the official residence of the Chief Minister, on June 15, 2020. There had been additionally another kith and kins of politicians who tried their luck in the April 6 polls however lots of them failed.
Both Jose Okay Mani, the chief of Kerala Congress (M), a outstanding Left accomplice and his sister’s husband M P Joseph, a UDF candidate, bit the mud in Pala and Trikkaripur respectively when the outcomes had been introduced on Sunday. While Kerala Congress chairman P J Joseph gained from Thodupuzha, his residence turf in Idukki, as UDF nominee, his son- in-law Dr Joseph was defeated in Kothamangalam constituency because the candidate of Twenty20, a corporate-backed political social gathering.
Congress leaders Okay Muraleedharan, MP and Padmaja Venugopal, kids of former Chief Minister late Okay Karunakaran had been defeated in Nemom and Thrissur respectively. Children of former ministers and MLAs from the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF and opposition Congress-led UDF had examined the electoral waters in over 20 of the 140 seats in the April 6 Assembly polls.
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