New Kerala minister Jayalekshmi creates
history
Monday May 23, 2011 08:22:01 PM, IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: It was only her fourth visit to
Kerala's capital city -- but P.K. Jayalekshmi created history
Monday by becoming the state's first ever minister from the tribal
community.
At 29, the Congress legislator from Mananthavady in Wayanad
district is also the youngest to become a minister in the state.
Jayalekshmi was sworn in Monday evening along with 12 others to
become part of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy's council of
ministers.
A graduate and a diploma holder in computer science, Jayalekshmi
belongs to the Kurichiya tribal community in the north-eastern
hilly district, over 550 km from the capital city.
She has been to Thiruvananthapuram only three times before.
The last time was when Chandy took oath as chief minister May 18.
That was when she saw Raj Bhavan, the governor's official
residence, for the first time.
Monday was a busy day for her. She called on state Congress
president Ramesh Chennithala, whose record of being the youngest
minister in the state she broke by one year.
He wished the new minister all success.
Jayalekshmi is likely to be given charge of Welfare of Backward
and Scheduled Communities.
"I will do my best for the development of the tribal community.
There are lots of issues and I assure that I will do my best,"
said Jayalekshmi.
She later met Chandy in his office to seek his blessings and got
back with her relatives who had come all the way from Mananthavady,
a constituency reserved for Scheduled Tribes candidates.
Jayalekshmi is the only woman in the 38-member Congress
legislature party.
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