THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Apart from being the leader of the state government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is also far ahead of other ministers in the number of likes on Facebook. His official page has 13,61,234 likes as of yesterday. At the forefront of the likes of ministers is Pinarayi's son-in-law Mohammed Riyas. 4, 89, 346 people have liked Riyas' page. Veena George is at third with 3,81,815 likes.

The Chief Minister has strongly directed the ministers to increase the likes of their pages on social media and immediately post what is happening in the department on their Facebook account.

It is reported that the ministers have sent down a PR team to increase the likes of their page.

Like count of other ministers on Facebook:

P Rajeev - 2, 36, 885, Sivankutty - 1,16,000, K Radhakrishnan - 1,09, 831, Saji Cherian - 1,05, 450, K Rajan - 94, 880, V Abdurahiman - 92, 825, Antony Raju - 88, 418, Govindan Master - 85,010, Balagopal - 75, 414, VN Vasavan - 40,945, R Bindu - 39, 565, P Prasad - 39, 430, Roshy Augustine - 35,962, Ahmed Devarkovil - 26, 397, K Krishnan Kutty. - 21, 695, AK Saseendran - 22,000, GR Anil - 20, 553, Chinchurani - 5,694