First Chandy ministry

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Following is the list of 20 government ministers serving under Oommen Chandy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Kerala, from August 2004 through May 2006.^[1]

	Minister	Ministry
1	Oommen Chandy	Chief Minister (Also in charge of Home affairs)
2	V. K. Ebrahimkunju	Minister for Industries
3	K. M. Mani	Minister for Revenue
4	M. K. Muneer	Minister for Public Works
5-	Vakkom Purushothaman	Minister for Finance
6	K. R. Gouri Amma	Minister for Agriculture
7	M. V. Raghavan	Minister for Co-operation
8	Aryadan Muhammed	Minister for Electricity
9	Babu Divakaran	Minister for Labour and Employment
10	Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan	Minister for Water Resources
11	N. Sakthan	Minister for Transport
12	K. C. Venugopal	Minister for Tourism and Devaswom
13	C. F. Thomas	Minister for Rural Development
14	K. P. Viswanathan	Minister for Forestry
15	E. T. Muhammed Basheer	Minister for Education
16	K K Ramachandran Master	Minister for Health
17	A. P. Anil Kumar	Minister for Cultural Affairs and Backward Caste Development
18	Kutty Ahammed Kutty	Minister for Local Self Government
19	Adoor Prakash	Minister for Food
20	Dominic Presentation	Minister for Fisheries
21	A. Sujanapal	Minister for Forestry

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Oommen Chandy was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Kerala on 31 August 2004 after the controversial resignation of A. K. Antony on 29 August. All ministers in the previous Antony government except K.M. Mani, P.K. Kunjalikkutty, K.R. Gowri Amma, M.V. Raghavan, Dr. M.K. Muneer, Babu Divakaran and C.F. Thomas were ousted. Kunjalikkutty resigned on 31 December 2004, after finding himself guilty in the notorious Ice Cream Parlour Scandal. He was succeeded by his colleague V.K. Ibrahim Kunju the next day (1 January 2005). K.P. Viswanathan, who handled the department of Forests, resigned on 9 February 2005 after a series of scandals, and A. Sujanapal succeeded him on 4 January 2006. In the interval, the CM himself handled the department of Forests.

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↑ "Council of Ministers - Kerala". Kerala Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 20 December 2009.

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[1] "Council of Ministers - Kerala". Kerala Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 20 December 2009.

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