New Delhi, May 14 -- Congress party finally picked VD Satheesan as the Chief Minister of Kerala. The annoucement was made by the party in its press conference in New Delhi.

The announcement on Thursday ends the suspense over the party's pick 10 days after the results of the assembly elections were declared. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) had won over two-thirds of the seats in the Kerala Assembly polls.

The results were announced on 10 May. The Congress-led UDF won 102 seats in the 140-member Kerala Assembly. But the Congress party has since been engaged in prolonged consultations over the leadership issue amid lobbying by different camps and protests by workers at the ground level.

The term of the outgoing Kerala assem...