Ramesh Chennithala
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Kerala portfolios announced: CM Satheesan keeps Finance, Chennithala gets Home | Full list
Karnataka | May 20, 2026, 04:35 PM ISTChief Minister VD Satheesan will handle the Finance and Law portfolios, while Ramesh Chennithala has been given the key Home department in the UDF's Kerala government.
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Ramesh Chennithala upset after Kerala CM announcement, will not join state Cabinet: Sources
India | May 14, 2026, 02:39 PM ISTRamesh Chennithala alleged that due importance has not been accorded to seniority. However, leaders close to him denied the reports and said that Chennithala had not expressed any dissent to the High Command.
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Who will be Kerala CM? 43 Congress MLAs prefer KC Venugopal, 10 left it to party chief, say sources
India | May 08, 2026, 11:42 PM ISTKerala Govt Formation: Since Priyanka Gandhi is currently a Member of Parliament from Kerala—and Rahul Gandhi has served in that capacity in the past—both are expected to play a pivotal role in determining the next Chief Minister.
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Prakash Ambedkar shakes up Maha Vikas Aghadi; rebukes Congress leadership
Maharashtra | Jan 25, 2024, 04:15 PM ISTMaharashtra: Prakash Ambedkar, the national president of Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA), criticized Congress leader Nana Patole sharply in a written letter, accusing Congress of playing mind games or having a 'locha' (issue) in their decision-making.
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Telangana Assembly Elections: Congress appoints Ramesh Chennithala as senior observer ahead of polls
Hyderabad | Nov 08, 2023, 08:47 PM ISTThe Congress is hoping to make a strong showing in both Telangana and Rajasthan in the upcoming elections. The Election Commission has announced that the Telangana legislative assembly, comprising 119 members, will conduct elections on November 30, 2023.
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Congress leader Oommen Chandy meets Rahul Gandhi in Delhi
India | Jun 25, 2021, 02:04 PM ISTChandy's visit to Delhi was days after the high command appointed VD Satheshan and K Sudhakaran as Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly and KPCC president respectively after the severe drubbing the party-led UDF received in the April 6 assembly polls.
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'Will introspect': Congress accepts its mauling in Kerala polls
Elections | May 02, 2021, 05:11 PM ISTKerala Polls Results: Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said that the party gracefully accepts the verdict, but will pursue the allegations against the Vijayan government.
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'NIA will unearth details of Kerala gold smuggling case': LoP Chennithala
News | Oct 15, 2020, 02:02 PM ISTNational Investigation Agency (NIA) has submitted in the special court, Kochi that agency suspects that the accused have links to Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company.
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Kerala opposition leader meets Governor over fire in state secretariat
News | Aug 26, 2020, 01:15 PM ISTLeader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, Ramesh Chennithala met Governor Arif Mohd Khan on August 25 over the fire that broke out at the state secretariat.
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No merit in postal ballots fraud allegation: Police to Kerala HC
India | May 20, 2019, 07:04 PM ISTCongress leader Chennithala has alleged that a serious postal-vote fraud has been committed at the behest of top-level government functionaries and has demanded a probe by an independent panel appointed by the Election Commission (EC).
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Kerala floods: State government responsible for man-made disaster, says Ramesh Chennithala
News | Aug 23, 2018, 07:45 AM ISTKerala floods: State government responsible for man-made disaster, says Ramesh Chennithala
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Corruption remark was not to target anyone: Antony
National | May 18, 2015, 07:21 PM ISTAlappuzha (Kerala): After triggering a political storm in Kerala with his corruption remark, senior Congress leader A K Antony today clarified that it was only a general statement and not intended to target anyone. Talking
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Chandy seeks to play down perception of challenges from alternate power centres
National | May 10, 2015, 02:32 PM ISTKochi: Asserting that Congress-led UDF will return to power in 2016, Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has sought to play down the wide perception that he might face challenges from “alternative power centres” in the
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SAI hands over Rs 5 lakh cheque to family of deceased athlete
India | May 09, 2015, 01:04 PM ISTAlapuzha (Kerala): Sports Authority of India Director General Injeti Srinivas on Friday gave a solatium of Rs 5 lakh to the family of rowing athlete Aparna, who died after consuming poison fruit along with three
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Government refutes Opposition charge on Mani issue; LDF walkout twice
National | Dec 16, 2014, 04:56 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: CPI(M)-led LDF Opposition today continued their protest in the Kerala Assembly over the bar bribery case against Finance Minister K M Mani and twice staged a walkout, even as Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala rejected
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Kerala not to go for appeal in ISRO spy case
India | Dec 03, 2014, 07:36 AM ISTThiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government Tuesday said it has decided not to go in appeal against the state high court judgement quashing its order to drop charges against three police officers, who had implicated and arrested
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Nehru against supporting struggle against Kerala Communist Ministry: Iyer
National | Nov 18, 2014, 01:17 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeared to have reservations about the Congress support to the 'liberation struggle' against Kerala's first Communist ministry led by E M S Namboodiripad, which was dismissed in 1959
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Murder accused presents turban to Rajnath Singh, sparks row
National | Sep 29, 2014, 01:19 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: A controversy has erupted over an RSS activist and accused in a murder case placing a turban on the head of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his visit here last week.The incident, which
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Kerala mulls contingency plan for environmental disasters
India | Sep 12, 2014, 12:27 PM ISTNew Delhi: Noting that hilly areas of Kerala are “vulnerable” to environmental disasters, state Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala today pushed for an urgent contingency plan to deal with any calamity as witnessed in Uttarakhand and
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Prepared to face any investigation, says Kerala CM
National | Aug 29, 2014, 07:03 PM ISTKochi: Making it clear that he had no plans to resign, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, against whom a vigilance court had ordered further investigation for alleged corruption in the setting up of an effluent treatment