{"id":6111,"date":"2026-05-14T06:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:38:17","slug":"vd-satheesan-named-next-kerala-chief-minister-as-congress-ends-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6111","title":{"rendered":"VD Satheesan named next Kerala chief minister as Congress ends suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After days of intense consultations, the Congress has chosen VD Satheesan as the next chief minister of Kerala. The announcement follows the Congress-led UDF&#8217;s decisive victory in the state elections, ending the Left Democratic Front&#8217;s second consecutive term. Satheesan emerged as the preferred candidate over KC Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After days of intense consultations, the Congress has chosen VD Satheesan as the next chief minister of Kerala. The announcement follows the Congress-led UDF&#8217;s decisive victory in the state elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6111\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}