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Union Minister Suresh Gopi connected Thursday (November 6, 2025) reiterated his earlier request for an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) successful the coastal Kerala territory of Alappuzha, saying that it was 1 of the astir "underdeveloped" regions successful the State.
The Union Minister of State for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Tourism said that if not Alappuzha, past Idukki, which was likewise placed, would beryllium the different enactment for mounting up an AIIMS.
"However, geographically it is not imaginable successful Idukki. If it is not allowed successful Alappuzha for immoderate reason, past I volition importune connected it being established successful Thrissur," helium said astatine a nationalist gathering successful Thrissur.
Mr. Gopi said that without the instauration chromatic of an AIIMS being laid successful Kerala, helium “will not spell to radical seeking votes.”
The Minister has connected respective occasions successful the past fewer months stressed upon establishing an AIIMS successful Alappuzha.
While the BJP has termed his remarks connected the contented arsenic his idiosyncratic view, the ruling CPI(M) has contended that Mr. Gopi was trying to make "unnecessary controversy" arsenic the authorities authorities has already fixed a connection for mounting up an AIIMS successful Kozhikode territory and besides earmarked and acquired onshore for the same.
