Pathanamthitta: For the first time in its history, a lady journalist-turned politician, Veena George, will end up being a minister in Kerala and most current reports suggest that George is set to change none aside from Kerala's much-acclaimed ex-Health Minister KK Shailaja.This is the 2nd time George is elected to Assembly, that too from the same Aranmula seat she was chosen for the very first time in 2016.

In 2019 however, she stopped working to make a mark in the election to the lower home of Parliament.

George won with a margin of 19,003 votes this time, whereas in 2016 surveys, she had wrested the constituency from the Congress, beating the nearby competing Sivadasan Nair by a margin of 7,646 votes.

In her journalism profession of over one-and-a-half decades in tv, George had actually stood out as a reporter and news anchor in different Malayalam news channels.

She was the first lady managing editor to head a media organisation in Kerala and one of the 5 Indian reporters who was appointed to cover the 2012 US elections.

She was likewise the speaker of the television programme Naam Munnottu in which CM Pinarayi Vijayan connected with a select audience.A rank holder of MSc (Physics) and BEd, George's political profession began rather suddenly as she changed from journalism even though she was an activist of Trainees Federation of India (SFI), the student wing of the CPI(M) while studying.

George, a mom of 2, is a member of the CPI(M) Pathanamthitta location committee.

Her hubby Dr George Joseph, a greater secondary school instructor, has served as secretary of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.Besides George, two other women will likewise end up being ministers in the new government.

While CPI(M) has nominated Prof R Bindu, other half of CPI (M) acting secretary A Vijayaraghavan, CPI has chosen its senior leader and Chadayamangalam MLA J Chinchu Rani to represent the celebration in the cabinet.