Second Nayanar ministry

The Eighth Kerala Legislative Assembly Council of Ministers, second E. K. Nayanar ministry, was a Kerala Council of Ministers (Kerala Cabinet), the executive wing of Kerala state government, led by Communist Party leader E. K. Nayanar from 26 March 1987 to 17 June 1991. It consisted of nineteen ministries, and overall twenty ministers.

Second E. K. Nayanar Ministry
14th Cabinet of Kerala
1987-1991
Second Nayanar Ministry in 1987
Date formed	26 March 1987
Date dissolved	17 June 1991
People and organisations
Head of government	E. K. Nayanar
Member parties	LDF
Status in legislature	Majority 78 / 140 (56%)
Opposition party	UDF
Opposition leader	K. Karunakaran
History
Election	1987
Predecessor	Third Karunakaran ministry
Successor	Fourth Karunakaran ministry

The Kerala Council of Ministers, during Nayanar's second term as Chief Minister of Kerala, consisted of:^[1]

Ministers

	Minister	Ministry	Notes
1	E. K. Nayanar	Chief Minister (Also had the charge of Home Department)
2	Baby John	Minister for Irrigation
3	K. Chandrasekharan	Minister for Education and Law
4	E. Chandrasekharan Nair	Minister for Food and Civil Supplies	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
5	K.R. Gowri Amma	Minister for Industries and Social Welfare	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
6	T.K. Hamza	Minister for Public Works	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
7	Lonappan Nambadan	Minister for Housing	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
8	Neelalohithadasan Nadar	Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
9	K. Pankajakshan	Minister for Labour	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
10	P. K. Raghavan	Minister for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Development	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
11	V. V. Raghavan	Minister for Agriculture	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
12	T.K. Ramakrishnan	Minister for Co-operation, Culture and Fisheries	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
13	K. Sankaranarayana Pillai	Minister for Transport	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
14	A. C. Shanmughadas	Minister for Health
15	T. Sivadasa Menon	Minister for Electricity and Rural Development	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
16	P.S. Sreenivasan	Minister for Revenue and Tourism
17	V. J. Thankappan	Minister for Local Administration	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
18	V. Viswanatha Menon	Minister for Finance	Assumed office on 2 April 1987
19	M.P. Veerendra Kumar	Minister for Forests	Assumed office on 2 April 1987 and resigned on 7 April 1987
19a	N.M. Joseph	Minister for Forests	Assumed office on 14 April 1987

See also

• List of chief ministers of Kerala
• Kerala Council of Ministers