Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has dropped enough hints that he does not intend to do a 'Joe Biden' and instead will rely on technology to run his government in remote control mode from a hospital bed in the US. Vijayan is leaving for the US along with his wife and his personal assistant on Saturday and will return only on January 29.
Biden, in November last year, for a brief while had officially handed over power to vice-president Kamala Harris when he underwent a colonoscopy examination. During Wednesday's Cabinet meeting which Vijayan attended virtually from Kozhikode, he informed his colleagues that the next Cabinet will be held on January 19, giving enough hints that he does not wish to hand over charge to any of his colleagues.
Incidentally, the last time he went for his medical treatment, he had handed over charge to E.P.Jayarajan, the de-facto number two in his then cabinet (2016-21). With regards to checking up on files, technology will be coming to his help as barring secret files, today in the State Secretariat, the seat of power in the state capital has by now adopted the e-file system, where any official with the correct authorisation can log on to any of the e-files.