{"id":109649,"date":"2026-05-14T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/10-days-of-manthan-for-keralas-simhasanam-why-cong-picked-satheesan-over-venugopal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:36:36","slug":"10-days-of-manthan-for-keralas-simhasanam-why-cong-picked-satheesan-over-venugopal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/10-days-of-manthan-for-keralas-simhasanam-why-cong-picked-satheesan-over-venugopal\/","title":{"rendered":"10 days of \u2018manthan\u2019 for Kerala\u2019s \u2018simhasanam\u2019: Why Cong picked Satheesan over Venugopal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After intense deliberations, VD Satheesan has been chosen as Kerala&#8217;s new Chief Minister, overcoming strong contenders KC Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala. Key factors included alliance support, grassroots sentiment, and Satheesan&#8217;s vocal opposition to the incumbent government, making him the preferred choice for a stable UDF administration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After intense deliberations, VD Satheesan has been chosen as Kerala&#8217;s new Chief Minister, overcoming strong contenders KC Venugopal and Ramesh Chennithala. Key factors included alliance support, grassroots sentiment, and Satheesan&#8217;s vocal opposition to the incumbent government, making him the preferred choice for a stable UDF administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":109650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}