LJD unhappy with exclusion from Cabinet

Leaders say party occupies fourth place within the LDF

The Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) which was hoping for a ministerial berth in the second Left Democratic Front government has expressed its bitter disappointment over its exclusion from the Cabinet. A meeting of the party’s State secretariat and the State committee said the LJD had wholeheartedly worked for the success of LDF candidates across the State. They said LDF convener A. Vijayaraghavan, also the acting State secretary of the CPI(M), had repeatedly attributed the massive mandate to the induction of new political parties into the LDF fold.