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The Congress government in Chhattisgarh has renamed four out of five Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya schemes after members of the Nehru-Gandhi family: former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi

In a video that has gone viral, an SFI activist is seen attending a meeting at University College, Thiruvananthapuram. In the meeting, CPI(M) ministers KT Jaleel and AK Balan, were also present.
 

While former Union ministers such as Kotla Suryaprakash Reddy, Killi Kruparani, Panabaka Lakshmi, etc, of the Congress are in favour of sailing with the TDP in Andhra Pradesh, the second-rung leadership opposes the idea

 

Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Governor P Sathasivam, ministers G Sudhakaran, Mercykutty Amma, P Raju, MLA Mukesh, MPs Suresh Gopi, NK Premachandran, V Muraleedharan and O Rajagopal MLA attended the inauguration.

 

Although the CBI has not named Akhilesh Yadav, the agency has said that the roles of all ministers who headed the mining ministry of Uttar Pradesh will be probed, and the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh held additionally the portfolio of mining

In Madhya Pradesh, the hard reality is that not more than six or seven of the ministers have any worthwhile experience. Predictably enough, most of the plum portfolios have gone to chief minister Kamal Nath's own supporters and that of Digvijaya Singh who has emerged as the backbone of the government

While the chief minister of Chattisgarh Baghel has allocated ministries to around ten members in the Cabinet, he has kept a few portfolios with him that are yet to be allocated to other ministers
 

The Congress office witnessed a protest by supporters of MLA Ramalinga Reddy. The supporters were led by former Mayor N Manjunath Reddy and corporator Rizwan Nawab. The protesters claim that Ramalinga Reddy has been side-lined.
 

As per the rule, only 15% of the elected members of the total strength in the Assembly can be made ministers. KCR can have 18 in his cabinet. It is speculated that Mohammad Mahmood Ali has been chosen to appease the Muslim vote base
 

Actor Joy Mathew criticised the Kerala government’s decision to not invite former chief ministers VS Achuthanandan and Oommen Chandy for the inauguration of Kannur airport. He said that the decision is a leader's arrogance without mentioning chief minister's Pinarayi Vijayan’s name.

Chandrashekar Rao will take charge as chief minister for another term along with six MLAs who will take charge as ministers following the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday