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Chandy to expand cabinet, IUML gets fifth berth
Thursday April 12, 2012 09:56:37 AM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen
Chandy finally succumbed to the pressures of coalition politics
and handed over a fifth berth to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)
here Wednesday.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday night Chandy said that M. Ali and
recently elected legislator Anup Jacob would be sworn in Thursday.
"We have a system in the United Democratic Front (UDF) to discuss
and debate things and things have ended smoothly. The decision to
give the fifth berth is a political decision," said Chandy soon
after chairing a meeting of the UDF.
With this, the strength of the Chandy cabinet has touched 21.
IUML is the second biggest ally of the UDF and since May last year
has been demanding a fifth berth, which its leader Panakkad Hyder
Ali Sihab Thangal had announced then.
The delay arose after serious discussions began across the state
of the minority communities (Muslims and Christians) having a
larger share in power.
Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaraj, who is standing in as Governor
here also will swear in the two new legislators as minister's
Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Raj Bhavan.
Anup Jacob, 34, had won the Piravom assembly seat by a thumping
majority in March. He is the son of former state food and civil
supplies minister T.M. Jacob, who passed away last year.
Ali, 60, is a hugely successful film producer and businessman. He
began his political career by winning as a Left supported
legislator defeating a IUML candidate in 2001 and repeated his
success in the 2006 polls.
In 2010, he split up with the Left and resigned as a legislator
and soon joined the IUML and won the 2011 polls.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced a shut down
Thursday here to mark the "succumbing" to the IUML and giving them
a fifth minister.
The Nair Service Society (NSS), a social organisation of the Hindu
Nair community said that the UDF had succumbed to the IUML.
"The communal balance has been tilted through this decision,
should the majority community go away from Kerala," asked NSS
general secretary Sukumaran Nair.
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