Overview

• Suresh Gopi, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism, said he wishes to step down and return to films due to a sharp drop in earnings.
• He endorsed Rajya Sabha MP C. Sadanandan Master to take his place in the Union Cabinet, calling it a potential new chapter for Kerala politics.
• The comments were made on Sunday at the inauguration of Sadanandan’s MP office in Kannur, which the minister said he hopes will become a ministerial office.
• Gopi, the BJP MP from Thrissur and a veteran Malayalam actor, stated his income has ‘completely stopped’ since taking office and cited family obligations.
• Sadanandan is a senior BJP leader from Kannur who was elevated to the Rajya Sabha earlier this year and survived a 1994 attack in which he lost both legs.