Thiruvananthapuram, Saturday, 31 July 2010: CPM meeting held here today decided to give Sports and Youth welfare portfolio for nominated Minister V Surendran Pillai who belong to Kerala Congress (Thomas ) faction).

The day long CPM State Secretariat meeting held here on Friday witnessed discord of opinion from various factions regarding the portfolio to be allocated to Thomas faction. Some of the members strongly opposed allocating Public Works Department to Pillai. which had been handled by his Kerala Congress predecessors P J Joseph, T U Kuruvila and Mons Joseph. Thereby the decision came against Pillai getting PWD portfolio.

However, today’s short meeting came up with the new decision of allocating Sports and Youth welfare to Pillai and PWD to M.Vijayakumar. The CPM State Secretariat also informed that Surendran Pillai would take oath on Tuesday.