Newsinc24 Team 
In a sudden move,senior CPM leader KK Shailaja has been dropped. She was praised for her handling of the coronavirus outbreak as Kerala's Health Minister. "No one from the earlier LDF ministry is part of the new ministry except for the Chief Minister. This is our party decision. Only our party has the courage to do so. Many top performers were also not allowed to contest elections. We want new faces," AN Shamsheer, a CPM MLA informed the media in Trivandrum on Tuesday.
The second Pinarayi Vijayan government in Kerala, to be sworn in on May 20, will have a 21-member cabinet, LDF convenor and CPI (M) acting state secretary A Vijayaraghavan said. The oath-taking ceremony of the new Left government would be a low-key affair with limited invitees in view of the Covid-19 situation, Vijayaraghavan said after the crucial state committee meeting of the Left Democratic Front.He also said the portfolios of the ministers would be decided by the chief minister. CPI(M), the largest coalition partner in the LDF, would have 12 members in the new cabinet while CPI, the second-largest party, would have 4 nominees, while Kerala Congress (M), Janata Dal (S) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would have one representative each.
KK Shailaja or "Shailaja Teacher" came to be seen as a "rockstar" health minister for her handling of the Covid outbreak in Kerala, a state that scored early successes in checking the spread of the virus in the first wave. She had also been appreciated for her role in checking the Nipah virus. In September, the UK-based Prospect magazine selected KK Shailaja as the "Top Thinker of the Year 2020".
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