After Kerala Drubbing, Congress Selects VD Satheesan As Leader Of Opposition
Weeks after the Congress look out to a crushing defeat in Kerala, the party has chosen VD Satheesan as the new leader of opposition. The 56-year-old leader replaces Ramesh Chennithala.
The move comes amid developing calls of revamp across the Congress leadership in the state.
VD Satheesan’s appointment to the post is being viewed as a starting to the change.
Reports said elected representatives held one-on-one meetings the Congress leadership in Delhi to discuss the revamp.
VD Satheesan has won five times consecutively as a legislator. He rose through the Congress ranks from the Kerala Students Union, just like Ramesh Chennithala.
On Thursday, Pinarayi Vijayan was sworn in as Kerala Chief Minister for a second time after guiding the CPM-led Left Democratic Front government to a historic second successive term in the April-May election.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) bucked the trend in the southern state that has seen a see-saw politics in the last four decades and has alternated between the Left and the United Democratic Front.
