Keralam Chief Minister V D Satheesan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi for the first time after assuming office. Satheesan discussed key developmental issues concerning the state and sought the Centre’s support, while presenting Modi with a Kathakali dancer statuette as a cultural gift
Lobbying within the Congress intensified in Kerala as supporters of V D Satheesan, K C Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala pushed their leaders’ claims for the chief minister’s post following the UDF’s Assembly election victory and return to power after a decade
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan resigned after the CPI(M)-led LDF’s heavy poll defeat, handing power to the Congress-led UDF. Asked to continue till a successor is named, his exit ends a decade-long tenure marked by crisis management, controversies, and centralised governance