THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A decision has been taken regarding the personal staff members of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Prabha Varma will continue as chief minister's media secretary and P M Manoj as press secretary.

M C Dathan (mentor, science), advocate A Rajasekharan Nair (special private secretary), C M Raveendran, P Gopan, Dinesh Bhaskar (additional private secretaries), A Sathish Kumar, Samuel Philip Mathew (assistant private secretaries), V M Suneesh and G K Balaji (personal assistants) are the other staff members.