The Tenth Kerala Legislative Assembly Council of Ministers, third E. K. Nayanar ministry, was a Kerala Council of Ministers (Kerala Cabinet), the executive wing of Kerala state government, led by CPI (M) leader E. K. Nayanar from May 1996 to May 2001. It had sixteen ministries and overall twenty ministers.
The Kerala Council of Ministers, during Nayanar's third term as Chief Minister of Kerala, consisted of:
Ministers MinisterMinistryNotes1E. K. NayanarChief Minister (Also had the charge of Home Department)2T. Sivadasa MenonMinister for Finance3aPinarayi VijayanMinister for Electricity and Co-operationresigned 19 October 19983bS. SharmaMinister for Electricity and Co-operationassumed office 25 October 19984aBaby JohnMinister for Irrigation and Labourresigned 7 January 19984bV. P. Ramakrishna PillaiMinister for Irrigation and Labourassumed office 7 January 19985E. Chandrasekharan NairMinister for Food, Tourism, and Law6aA. C. ShanmughadasMinister for Health and Sportsresigned 19 January 20006bV.C KabeerMinister for Health and Sportsassumed office 19 January 20007K. RadhakrishnanMinister for Welfare of Backwardand Scheduled communities8aV. K. RajanMinister for Agriculturedied in office 29 May 19978bKrishnan KaniyamparampilMinister for Agricultureassumed office 9 June 1997 9T. K. RamakrishnanMinister for Fisheries and Rural Development10aP. R. KurupMinister for Forests and Transportresigned 11 January 199910bA. Neelalohitha Dasan NadarMinister for Forests and Transportassumed office 20 January 1999resigned 13 February 200010cC. K. NanuMinister for Forests and Transportassumed office 13 February 200011K. E. IsmailMinister for Revenue12P. J. JosephMinister for Education and Public Works13Paloli Muhammed KuttyMinister for Local Administration14Susheela GopalanMinister for Industries and Social Welfare
Trivia This was the third and last term of E. K. Nayanar as the Chief Minister, and the only one in which he completed a full term as chief minister. He did not contest in the 1996 Legislative elections, and V. S. Achuthanandan, another senior Communist leader, was designated as the Chief Minister candidate. When the election results came, the Left Democratic Front won the majority of seats, but Achuthanandan lost. In this special situation, a meeting was held by the CPI (M), which unanimously supported Nayanar as the Chief Minister. When Nayanar left the office after completing his term in May 2001, he had become the longest served Chief Minister of Kerala, serving for 4009 days in total.
See also Chief Ministers of Kerala Kerala Ministers
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