Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 -- Senior Congress leader VD Satheesan took oath as the 13th chief minister of Kerala at a packed Central Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday, marking the return of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (LDF) rule in the southern state after a decade of Left Front regime. Besides Satheesan, his 20-member Cabinet, including senior leaders and former ministers Ramesh Chennithata, who was also in the race for the CM post, K Muraleedharan, AP Anil Kumar and state party chief Sunny Joseph, was also sworn in by Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar. Top Congress leaders, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, his Telangana and Himachal Pradesh counterparts A Revanth Reddy and Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, respectively, as well as Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar were present at the swearing-in ceremony. Soon after the swearing-in ceremony, the new cabinet, chaired by Satheesan, held its first meeting at the state secretariat and approved a slew of welfare measures, including free rides in state-run KSRTC buses for women from June 15, a Rs.3,000 increase in the monthly honorariums of Accredited Social Health Activists and the formation of a dedicated department for the welfare of the elderly in the state. Two of these announcements were among the five "Indira Guarantees" promised by the UDF in the run-up to the April 9 assembly polls....