Left Democratic Front government headed by Pinarayi Vijayan kicked off with a bang with popular measures. In the first cabinet meeting, LDF government appointed a new team to investigate controversial Jisha murder case and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan hinted that "women security would be  prime concern of the government".
"Cabinet has decided that B. Sandya, Additional Director General of Police would lead the investigation in the case. It's reported that there were serious lapses in the investigation. So the government has set up a new team to probe the case," Chief Minister Pinarayi told the media while briefing the cabinet decisions. 
Sandhya, 1986 batch IPS officer was heading the Community policing programme in Kerala. "Our first priority is to find out the culprit who  is responsible for the murder," Chief Minister told the media.
29 year old Jisha, a dalit law student was brutally raped and murdered on April 28 and even after 27 days, the police could not identify her murderer. Chandy government entrusted Additional DGP K. Padmakumar to conduct the investigation in the case, but failed to report any progress. Jisha murder case and a series of protests put Chandy government in poor light during the poll campaign.
 Police complaints authority Chairman retired Justice K. Narayana Kurup criticised police officials for destroying vital evidence and summoned  senior officials  to appear before him. But Inspector General of Police Mahipal Yadav and other officers refused stating the authority has no power to summon the police officials.
Youth organizations have complained that there was an undeclared ban on appointments in the state and many departments were not  reporting  the vacancies. This has resulted in cancellation of many rank lists prepared by Public Service Commission," Chief Minister revealed.
The cabinet revoked the undeclared ban on appointments in the state and directed all departments to report vacancies on priority basis. The cabinet has entrusted Chief Secretary to review the positions of vacancies in various departments.
The cabinet decided not to parade school children and women for government functions. It was a practice in Kerala as school children and women were paraded for the reception of VIPs and they had to wait for hours under the scorching sun.
The first cabinet meeting also decided to check price rise of essential commodities in the state.
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