Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan elected speaker of Kerala Assembly

Radhakrishnan, 76, is an eight-time MLA and the senior-most Congress legislator in the current Assembly.

In the election to the Speaker’s post, Radhakrishnan secured 101 votes, while AC Moideen of the CPI(M) received 35 votes and BJP’s BB Gopakumar got three votes.

The election of Radhakrishnan as Speaker was a foregone conclusion as the Congress-led UDF has a brute majority of 102 in the 140-member Assembly.