{"id":306114,"date":"2018-11-26T08:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306114"},"modified":"2018-11-26T08:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:01:47","slug":"kerala-water-resources-minister-mathew-t-thomas-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kerala-water-resources-minister-mathew-t-thomas-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala Water Resources minister Mathew T. Thomas resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306116 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mathew-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mathew-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mathew.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kerala Water Resources Minister, Mathew T. Thomas on Monday submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came after the JD(S), a key partner in the LDF decided to replace Thomas with Chittur MLA K Krishnankutty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mathew T Thomas told media after submitting the resignation to the Chief Minister at Cliff House, that he will not join the Congress-led opposition alliance United Democratic Front just because his party had asked him to quit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thomas said that he had functioned as the state president of the party and had helped it to grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further added, \u201cthe party would not split and would remain in the LDF.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked about claiming for the post of the state party chief, Thomas said, \u201cI had not put forward any such demand and had not listed any conditions for his resignation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement was followed by a meeting headed by Former Prime Minister and JD (S) National President HD Deve Gowda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The national leadership had decided to replace Thomas with Krishnankutty in Bengaluru, last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier two ministers had quit in the Pinarayi Vijayan government. However, both of them later returned to their posts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Water Resources Minister, Mathew T. Thomas on Monday submitted his resignation to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The move came after the JD(S), a key partner in the LDF decided to replace Thomas with Chittur MLA K Krishnankutty. Mathew T Thomas told media after submitting the resignation to the Chief Minister at Cliff House, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2196,2072,2014],"tags":[9895,4719,9894,1891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306117,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306114\/revisions\/306117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}