Kerala To Get Its First Woman Journalist-Turned-Politician As Minister

Veena George, entering electoral politics with a victory from Aranmula assembly seat in the 2016 polls, was re-elected from the same constituency in Pathanamthitta district five years later.

For the first time in its history, a woman journalist-turned politician will become a minister in Kerala. CPI(M) member Veena George, who had excelled as journalist and news anchor in various Malayalam news channels, has been selected by the party to be a minister in the Pinarayi Vijayan-led government. The Chief Minister and new ministers will take oath on Thursday. The ruling LDF had swept the April 6 polls, winning 99 of the 140 seats. Entering electoral politics with a victory from Aranmula assembly seat in the 2016 polls, she was re-elected from the same constituency in Pathanamthitta district with a margin of 19,003 votes five years later. In the 2016 polls, she had wrested the constituency from the Congress, defeating the nearest rival Sivadasan Nair by a margin of 7,646 votes.