Gowri Amma adds icing on Pinarayi Vijayan's cake

Alappuzha: Chief Minister-designate  Pinarayi Vijayan visited    JSS leader K.R. Gowri Amma at her house at Chathanad in Alappuzha on Tuesday noon and had lunch with her. As the visit was pre-arranged, her house and premises were crowded with CPM and JSS supporters and mediapersons. 

Mr Vijayan came along with  his ministerial-designate colleagues E.P. Jayarajan, T.M. Thomas Isaac and G. Sudhakaran.  As Tuesday  was Mr Vijayan’s 72nd birthday, Gowriamma surprised him by cutting a cake with  his pictures  in five different poses.   Before leaving for  Valiyachudukad to offer tributes to the Punnapra- Vayalar martyrs after spending half-an-hour in Gowriamma’s house,   he told reporters that Gowriamma, 97, would be suitably rewarded by the CPM.

It may be recalled that the LDF  had not allotted any seat to her party after she joined hands  with it in the Assembly elections. “We will discuss what post Gowriamma has to be given. She has been invited for the oath-taking ceremony on Wednesday,” he said. Mr Pinarayi, after he was chosen to head the government,  has been sending the right signals  by calling on the political stalwarts to seek their advice and blessings.