Congress to Hold CLP Meet Today 'Kerala Set to Get New CM'

More than 10 days after the declaration of the assembly election results, Kerala is set to get its chief minister on Thursday, with the Congress expected to announce the name of its legislature party leader at a meeting of newly elected party MLAs at KPCC headquarters here in the afternoon.

The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting to be held at 1 pm on May 14 was announced a day ago by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief Sunny Joseph.

The announcement came as the Congress high command, after several days of discussions



with party leaders from the southern state, indicated that the next chief minister of the state would be announced on Thursday. 

Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh conveyed this following a meeting between Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at the latter's residence in New Delhi. 

The Congress-led UDF secured a more than two-thirds majority in the Kerala Assembly elections, but the party has been unable to decide its chief ministerial face due to lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.