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AAA Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala said here on Monday that the United Democratic Front (UDF), if elected to power, would legislate to prevent backdoor appointments in government jobs.
Accusing the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of conducting a ‘Kumbh Mela’ of backdoor appointments, Mr. Chennithala said that it would be made mandatory through a new law that heads of departments should report their vacancies to the Public Service Commission (PSC) once in six months.
“Our proposed Bill will deem the failure of reporting of vacant posts as a criminal offence,” he said while addressing the media here. Mr. Chennithala’s Aiswarya Kerala Yatra received a warm reception in the district on Monday.
Speaker misinterpreting rules of procedure to protect staff: Opposition
Chennithala alleged that the Speaker and his office were trying to block the investigation in the dollar smuggling case.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Coming down heavily on Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan for allegedly misinterpreting Rule 165 of the ‘Rules of Procedure’, Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala said on Thursday that the Speaker was trying to sabotage the law to save his own face.
The criticism comes a day after Legislative Assembly Secretary S V Unnikrishnan Nair shot off a letter to the Customs, citing Rule 165 to state that the Speaker’s permission had to be sought if a legislative assembly employee was to be served with a legal process. As per the Rule 165 of the ‘Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Assembly’, a legal process, civil or criminal, cannot be served within the precincts of the assembly without obtain
The protesting opposition legislators later staged a sit-in protest in the assembly premises
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The Kerala Assembly session started today on a turbulent note with the Opposition boycotting the Governor s speech, raising slogans against the Speaker and the Chief Minister. Congress-led UDF MLAs shouted slogans against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan, demanding their resignations over alleged links to various corporation cases.
Reacting to the slogan shouting inside the house, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan was heard saying, I am doing my constitutional duty. It is expected that no obstruction shall be created while the Governor is performing his Constitutional duty.
Chennithala who does not have any symptoms will be shifted to the hospital.
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Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala and Deputy Leader of Opposition MK Muneer. (File Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS) By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A day after Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala went into home quarantine, he has
turned COVID positive on Wednesday. His wife, Anitha Ramesh and their elder son Dr Rohit Chennithala were the first to be diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday, after contracting it from one of the staff at Cantonment House.
Chennithala who does not have any symptoms will be shifted to the hospital. He had not turned up for the Opposition MLAs protest on Wednesday before the Assembly against Governor denying permission to the state government to convene a special Assembly session.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Buoyed by its success in the local body elections, the LDF is preparing to take the battle to the rival camp after the state government was put on the defensive over a slew of controversies in the past five months. According to sources in the state police, the vigilance department is likely to record the arrest of Congress legislator and former health minister VS Sivakumar in a disproportionate assets case within a month.
The investigating officer in the case, the vigilance special cell SP, was summoned to the state police headquarters a couple of weeks before the elections, sources said. The officer is learnt to have handed over a document that allegedly put Sivakumar in the dock. The agency had earlier charged him with amassing wealth illegally and stacking money in the name of close associates when he was in office, from 2011 to 16.