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.

Third Nayanar Ministry

17th Cabinet of Kerala
1996-2001
Date formed20 May 1996
Date dissolved13 May 2001
People and organisations
Head of governmentE. K. Nayanar
Member parties  LDF
Status in legislatureMajority
80 / 140 (57%)
Opposition party  UDF
Opposition leaderA. K. Antony
History
Election1996
PredecessorSecond Antony ministry
SuccessorThird Antony ministry

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

Ministers

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Minister Ministry Notes
1 E. K. Nayanar Chief Minister (Also had the charge of Home Department)
2 T. Sivadasa Menon Minister for Finance
3a Pinarayi Vijayan Minister for Electricity and Co-operation resigned 19 October 1998
3b S. Sharma Minister for Electricity and Co-operation assumed office 25 October 1998
4a Baby John Minister for Irrigation and Labour resigned 7 January 1998
4b V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai Minister for Irrigation and Labour assumed office 7 January 1998
5 E. Chandrasekharan Nair Minister for Food, Tourism, and Law
6a A. C. Shanmughadas Minister for Health and Sports resigned 19 January 2000
6b V.C Kabeer Minister for Health and Sports assumed office 19 January 2000
7 K. Radhakrishnan Minister for Welfare of Backward
and Scheduled communities
8a V. K. Rajan Minister for Agriculture died in office 29 May 1997
8b Krishnan Kaniyamparampil Minister for Agriculture assumed office 9 June 1997
9 T. K. Ramakrishnan Minister for Fisheries and Rural Development
10a P. R. Kurup Minister for Forests and Transport resigned 11 January 1999
10b A. Neelalohitha Dasan Nadar Minister for Forests and Transport assumed office 20 January 1999
resigned 13 February 2000
10c C. K. Nanu Minister for Forests and Transport assumed office 13 February 2000
11 K. E. Ismail Minister for Revenue
12 P. J. Joseph Minister for Education and Public Works
13 Paloli Muhammed Kutty Minister for Local Administration
14 Susheela Gopalan Minister for Industries and Social Welfare

Trivia

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This was the third and last term of E. K. Nayanar as the Chief Minister, and the only one in which he completed a 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

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References

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