India, May 14 -- Outgoing Leader of the Opposition in Kerala assembly VD Satheesan was named as the new chief minister of Kerala, eleven days after the poll results were declared on May 4.

Deepa Dasmunshi, general secretary in charge of Kerala announced, "The Congress legislature party met at Thiruvananthapuram and unanimously authorised Congress president to select the CLP leader.

Congress president held extensive discussions with the Congress parliamentary party leader (Sonia Gandhi) and Leader of the Opposition (Rahul Gandhi) and many other leaders including former PCC chiefs. Based on all these discussions it has been decided that VD Satheesan has been appointed as the leader of the Congress Legislative Party."

According to a senio...