Bringing hope of recent air to the State unit, which is badly broken in the second wave of LDF led by Pinarayi Vijayan, the Congress get together determined to nominate VD Satheesan as its chief in the Kerala Assembly. The announcement comes 21 days after the outcomes of the Assembly elections have been introduced adopted by a collection of discussions amidst the confusion.
Satheesan would be the chief of Opposition, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the fifteenth state Assembly. “The AICC on Saturday nominated Satheesan as the leader of the party’s parliamentary party in the Kerala Assembly,” stated KPCC President Mullappally Ramachandran.
Marking a technology shift in the Congress in Kerala and the UDF coalition it leads in the House, Satheesan replaces veteran Ramesh Chennithala. According to political observers, a comparable technology shift occurred in the state Congress in 1967, when a new chief got here because the chief of its nine-member parliamentary get together, Okay Karunakaran, who later got here to be popularly often called ‘Leader’.
The newest resolution got here after most of the newly-elected MLAs most well-liked a change in the House management. AICC observers Mallikarjun Kharge and R Vaithilingam had arrived in Kerala after the Assembly election outcomes and held one-on-one discussions with all of the 21 Congress MLAs. Of these, not less than 12 are reported to have chosen Satheesan over Chennithala. There have been studies that the faction led by former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy provided his help to Chennithala.
Satheesan might be main a 41-member UDF comprising of the Congress, Muslim League and Kerala Congress. The Opposition additionally has one member every from NCK, a cut up away faction from NCP and RMP, a cut up away faction from CPM in the Kerala Assembly, in comparison with the 47-member UDF led by Ramesh Chennithala from 2016 to 2021. The Muslim League has 15 members.
The State unit of the Congress seen as its greatest guess in these elections, particularly because of the ‘alternative term to opposition’ phenomenon in the final 4 a long time, needed to face a humiliating defeat by the ‘Pinarayi juggernaut.’
Satheesan, 56, was elected from the Paravur constituency in Ernakulam district for a fifth consecutive time period and has served because the vice-president of the state unit and an AICC secretary in the previous. He is the primary chief of Opposition in the State from a seat in Eranakulam district, by the way, which despatched eight members together with Satheesan out of the entire 21 Congress MLAs.
Satheesan began his electoral politics with a defeat in 1996 in Paravur. A superb orator and voracious reader, he was additionally the president of the PAC and estimate committees in the final Assembly.
Satheesan rose by means of the Congress ranks from the Kerala Students Union (KSU), like Ramesh Chennithala. He, a former chairman of Mahatma Gandhi University Students Union (1986-1987), has additionally served because the secretary for National Students Union (NSU). He is a double postgraduate, one in Social Sciences from Rajagiri School Sciences Kalamassery and the opposite in Law from Kerala University.
Satheesan, a native of Nettur in the Kochi Corporation, has been half of the ‘I’ faction and later with the Ramesh Chennithala faction in the Congress. However, he was not related to any teams in the get together for nearly a decade. He started to maintain a distance from the factions after the 2011 elections. Neither the group nor the get together thought of him to the UDF cupboard in 2011, regardless of his extraordinary efficiency in many a debate for his get together in the Assembly and out of doors particularly the one with then Finance Minister Thomas Issac.
“Traditional way of the opposition has to change (and) will discuss with colleagues on this. During the pandemic, we will be with the govt. People wish all the parties should work together to fight the crisis. I assure you that we will give unconditional support to the government in the measures they take to overcome this pandemic,” Satheeshan stated.
He added that in instances of disaster individuals don’t need political events to battle with one another however to work collectively.
“We will support all the good things done by this government. When they do wrong, we will point that out inside and outside the Assembly,” Satheeshan stated.
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