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Kerala Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan connected Thursday challenged State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to an unfastened debate.
Responding to questions raised by the Chief Minister a time ago, the Congress person issued an extended connection combining rebuttals with counter-questions, and accused the authorities of attempting to divert attraction from superior governance failures.
He took a swipe astatine the Chief Minister by highlighting that 2 CPI(M) leaders stay successful jailhouse successful transportation with the Sabarimala golden misappropriation case. He accused the enactment of shielding the accused portion simultaneously attacking the Congress and United Democratic Front (UDF).
Referring to intersexual battle allegations involving Palakkad MLA Rahul Mamkootathil, Mr. Satheesan said the Congress had taken a beardown stance connected cases of intersexual misconduct, dissimilar the Chief Minister, who, helium alleged, continues to support persons who look superior charges.
He questioned the relation and past grounds of the Chief Minister’s governmental caput and accused the Chief Minister’s bureau of delaying enactment connected a ailment from a movie nonrecreational against a CPI(M) MLA.
Responding to Mr. Vijayan’s poser connected the Vizhinjam International Seaport, Mr. Satheesan reminded the Chief Minister that it was erstwhile Chief Minister Oommen Chandy who pushed the task guardant contempt absorption from the past Left Democratic Front-led Opposition led by Mr. Vijayan. He besides asked Mr. Vijayan whether helium inactive stands by his past allegation claiming the task was a “₹6,000-crore real-estate scam”.
On the Wayanad passageway project, helium said helium had opposed lone the government’s refusal to behaviour biology interaction studies successful an ecologically fragile zone, not the passageway itself. Regarding the coastal road project, Mr. Satheesan reiterated that the UDF’s objection was to the lack of a elaborate task study (DPR), interaction studies and safeguards for fishermen.
’Schemes simply rebranded'
Countering the Chief Minister’s questions connected LIFE Mission, the Leader of Opposition said the task simply rebranded schemes antecedently implemented nether the erstwhile UDF government, which, helium claimed, had built much than 4.5 lakh homes.
On payment pensions, helium accused the LDF authorities of delaying payments for months and politicising welfare. He said pensions were treated arsenic a close during Congress-led governments but reduced to a “PR exercise” nether the LDF.
Mr. Satheesan besides dismissed the assertion that the UDF opposed the GAIL pipeline, and alleged that large anti-pipeline protests successful Kerala were historically led by the CPI(M).
Referring to the K-Rail (SilverLine) project, helium said the UDF had presented alternate proposals suited to Kerala’s terrain and added that the task had been pushed without assessing the risks borne by affected communities.
Mr. Satheesan added that KIIFB has go a “high-interest borrowing mechanism”, which masked the government’s fiscal mismanagement. He besides claimed that lone a fraction of approved projects had been completed. He went connected to question the rationale down raising masala bonds overseas portion ample infrastructure projects had been executed during the UDF epoch without akin borrowing.
