Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan retains Home and IT, son-in-law PA Mohamed Riyas to be PWD minister

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will retain key portfolios including Home, Vigilance and IT portfolios in the LDF government in the state while his son-in- law PA Mohamed Riyas and Veena George, both first time ministers, will handle PWD and Health, respectively.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has retained key portfolios including Home in the LDF government in the state. First time ministers, son-in- law PA Mohamed Riyas and Veena George, will handle PWD and Health, respectively. Pinarayi Vijayan will retain Home, Vigilance and IT portfolios among others. His confidant and first-time legislator K N Balagopal will helm the Finance Department, replacing T M Thomas Isaac as the portfolios of the new ministers were announced on Friday. The 21-member-strong CPI(M)-led ministry was sworn in at the central stadium on Thursday evening in a low-key ceremony in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. Barring Vijayan, all 11 CPI(M) ministers are new faces.