The Tenth Kerala Legislative Assembly Council of Ministers, third E. K. Nayanar ministry, was a

Kerala Council of Ministers Kerala Council of Ministers, are elected legislative members, who are appointed as ministers by the Governor of Kerala, Kerala State Governor to form the executive branch of the Government of Kerala. They hold various portfolios as decided by t ...

(Kerala Cabinet), the executive wing of

Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...

state government A state government is the government that controls a subdivision of a country in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonom ...

, led by

CPI (M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a Communism in India, communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electora ...

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

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.

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Ministers

Trivia

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