Pinarayi cabinet 2.0 to swear in after May 20

Thiruvananthapuram: The swearing-in ceremony of Pinarayi Vijayan’s new cabinet will be held after May 20, hints sources. CPM secretariat meet held on Tuesday opined that it is ideal to delay the swearing-in ceremony in view of the covid cases.

At the same time, it is learned that CPM state secretariat didn’t discuss about the new ministers during the meeting. CPI and CPM will hold talks to select the ministers before considering other allies.

According to reports, new faces will be considered while forming the cabinet.

K K Shailaja, MV Govindan, K Radhakrishnan, VN Vasavan, P Rajeev, KN Balagopal, Saji Cherian, V Sivankutty, CH Kunjambu, PP Chitharanjan, P Nandakumar, Veena George, MB Rajesh, Kanathil Jameela, R Bindu, Muhammad Riyas or AN Shamseer are in the probable list of the ministers.