Thiruvananthapuram,
Nov 15: Kerala Transport Minister Thomas Chandy submitted his resignation
from the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet on Wednesday, a day after the High Court
issued adverse remarks against him in the backwater encroachment issue.
The businessman-turned politician became the third minister to step down from
the one-and-a-half year-old Marxist-led Left Democratic Front government after
senior CPI(M) member EP Jayarajan resigned in October last year over charges of
nepotism and corruption and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader AK
Saseendran quit in March for allegedly engaged in a lewd phone conversation
with a woman. NCP state president TP Peethambaran handed over Mr Chandy's resignation letter
to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at his office a few hours after CPI, the
second largest constituent of the ruling coalition, boycotted Wednesday's
Cabinet meeting in protest against the tainted minister participating in it. UNI
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