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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan appeared to enactment speech authorities and absorption connected Kerala’s developmental priorities successful his interactions with members of the Union Cabinet successful New Delhi connected Thursday (October 9, 2025).
Mr. Vijayan, who led a ministerial delegation consisting of Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal, Tourism and PWD Minister P.A. Mohamed Riyas, and a big of elder bureaucrats, had successive discussions with Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah; Union Minister for Transport and National Highways Nitin Gadkari; and Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda. Mr Vijayan volition apt conscionable Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Friday.
Mr. Vijayan stated that helium had “submitted a memorandum outlining cardinal proposals to fortify Kerala’s interior information and development”. He besides highlighted the request for enhanced coastal security, fixed the State’s 640-km-long coastline.
He besides stated that Kerala needed to modernise its exigency services and forensic infrastructure urgently. Mr. Vijayan besides requested Mr. Shah to region Kannur and Wayanad from the Central government’s database of Left Wing Extremism-affected districts.
In his gathering with Mr. Nadda, the Chief Minister pressed Kerala’s lawsuit for a National Institute for Geriatric Care, fixed the State’s ageing population. He besides reiterated Kerala’s long-standing request for an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), fixed the State’s enactment successful wellness care.
Mr. Vijayan and Mr. Riyas besides interacted with Mr. Gadkari. They outlined the steps Kerala had taken to expedite roadworthy infrastructure work, including the delayed NH-66 project. He besides sought the sanctioning of different captious corridors, including the projected Thiruvananthapuram Ring Road.
Earlier, during an enactment with the media successful New Delhi, Mr. Riyas pointedly sidestepped the question of whether the 2 Union Ministers from Kerala, Suresh Gopi and George Kurian, had made immoderate meaningful publication to the State’s parley with the Centre connected assorted aspects, including tourism and NH-66 development, among different pressing issues.
“Politics has taken a backseat. Controversies mightiness deed headlines. However, they are transient and person nary bearing connected the radical of Kerala and their development, welfare, and economical aspirations. We purpose to instrumentality everybody connected committee to execute the State’s improvement and payment goals. Unnecessary controversies tin beryllium a hurdle to Kerala’s development. They are champion avoided,” helium stated.
