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Luxury Bus Owners’ Association Kerala State committee has announced that each inter-State tourer autobus services from Kerala to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka volition beryllium suspended from 6 p.m. connected Monday (November 10, 2025).
Association State president A.J. Rijas and wide caput Maneesh Sasidharan alleged that the determination was forced upon the operators arsenic the neighbouring States had begun levying dense fines, imposing unlawful State-level taxes, and seizing each India tourer licence (AITP) buses belonging to Kerala operators.
Despite holding valid AITPs, tourer vehicles from Kerala are being stopped, fined, and detained successful Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the organisation said. For implicit a year, the Tamil Nadu authorities person been collecting taxation arbitrarily from Kerala-registered vehicles. During this period, the State authorities had taken a precise sympathetic and supportive approach, refraining from retaliatory measures successful the anticipation of a cooperative resolution, it added.
However, since Tamil Nadu and Karnataka person continued their high-handed enforcement, including seizing Kerala vehicles and imposing exorbitant penalties, the concern has go untenable and unsafe for operators, the office-bearers said successful a statement. The relation clarified that the work suspension was not a voluntary protest, but a compelled enactment taken for the information of vehicles, drivers, and passengers.
