Vijayan, who will be sworn-in as Chief Minister at a function here tomorrow, however, gave the nod for carrying out 'unavoidable cleaning and maintenance' work of the buildings, sources in CPI-M said.
In the past, whenever the ministry changed, huge expenditure used to be incurred on refurbishing of ministerial bungalows.
There had also been allegations of corruption while carrying out such renovation of residence allotted to ministers.
Vijayan along with ministerial designates offered
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floral tributes at the Punnapara Vayalar Martyr's Column and at the Vayalar Samadhi at Alapuzha.
Addressing party workers, Vijayan stressed the need to wipe out corruption. "That is what people want as it is clear from the massive mandate against the previous Congress led UDF government," he said.
Even in their homes, women were not safe, he said apparently referring to the recent rape and murder of a Dalit law student in her house at Perumbavoor in Ernakulam.
The state's industrial sector was in a bad shape and due to the spiralling price rise of essential commodities during the UDF rule, the life of common man had been badly affected, he said.
97-year-old Gowri Amma, a fiery communist leader, was expelled from the CPI(M) in 1994 for anti-party activities after which she floated her own political party - JSS.
Talks had been held between leaders of CPI(M) and JSS for merging with the communist party before the May 16 elections. However, it failed to materialise due to some inner party differences in the JSS.