Opposition boycotts Kerala Governor s policy address, stages protest outside Assembly
Opposition boycotts Kerala Governor s policy address, stages protest outside Assembly
Opposition leaders raised slogans against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Speaker as Governor Arif Mohammad Khan arrived to deliver his address. Protesting opposition legislators later walked out of the Assembly hall and staged a sit-in.
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UPDATED: January 8, 2021 12:12 IST
Opposition leaders walked out of the Kerala Assembly hall and staged a sit-in, raising slogans and displaying banners and posters. (Photo:ANI)
The Congress-led UDF opposition boycotted Governor Arif Mohammad Khan s policy address in the Kerala Assembly on the first day of the budget session on Thursday.
Updated Jan 08, 2021 · 08:02 pm Opposition MLAs stage a protest outside Kerala Legislative complex, demanding the resignation of Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan over his alleged involvement in a corruption case, after boycotting the Assembly session, in Thiruvananthapuram, on Friday.
The 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly’s final Budget session saw a tumultuous beginning on Friday with the Congress-led United Democratic Front boycotting Governor Arif Muhammad Khan’s address, reported
The Hindu. Slogans were shouted against Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan over alleged links to corruption cases.
After the MLAs began sloganeering, Khan said he was doing his constitutional duty. “It is expected that no obstruction shall be created while the Governor is performing his constitutional duty,” he said, according to NDTV. “Do not interrupt me.”
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Governor Arif Mohammed Khan being greeted by Speaker, P. Sreeramakrishnan and Chief Minister, Pinarayi Vijayan on arrival at the Assembly for his customary address.
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The budget session of the Kerala Assembly began on Friday with the policy address by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, amid slogan shouting and a walkout by the Congress-led Opposition UDF.
Here are the updates from Mr. Khan’s address:
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Refrain from trading barbs against one another in public, party leaders told
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KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran and AICC secretary in charge of Kerala, P.V. Mohan, at a meeting of Congress leaders in Kozhikode on Thursday.
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Refrain from trading barbs against one another in public, party leaders told
The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on Thursday set in motion the process of gearing up for the Assembly polls by holding a meeting of elected representatives of the Legislature and Parliament and senior office-bearers of the party here.
The meeting chaired by P.V. Mohan, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary in charge of Kerala, discussed the political and electoral strategy to be adopted in the Assembly elections after the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) received a walloping shock in the recent three-tier local body polls.
NCP Kerala unit chief, MLA meet Sharad Pawar
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram/Mumbai, Jan 7 : NCP s Kerala unit President TP Peethambaran and party MLA Mani C Kappan on Thursday met party supremo and former Union Minister Sharad Pawar in Mumbai, a day after Transport Minister AK Saseendran met him.
The two meetings come in the wake of infighting within the Nationalist Congress Party s Kerala unit, led by Peethambaran and Saseendran. During out meeting with Pawarji, he insisted that the party must get all four Assembly seats it had earlier contested. If Pawarji takes a decision, Saseendran will also have to abide by it, Peethambaran told the media.