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UDF members protested against the government’s refusal to release information on Cabinet decisions, despite orders from the State Information Commission under the RTI Act, in the Assembly on Tuesday.
Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala led a walk out after Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan said that there was no need to discuss the matter in the House and Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan refused permission to move an adjournment motion to raise a discussion.
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Kerala Assembly on Monday passed a motion calling upon the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw from the move for merger of Stat Bank of Travancore (SBT) with State Bank of India (SBI).
All members of the House except BJP member O. Rajagopal supported the resolution.
The substantive motion, adopted at the end of a discussion raised through a motion moved by Chief Minister Pinarai Vijayan, said that the merge would harm the economic growth of the State.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government proposes to complete electrification of all the houses lacking power connection in the State by March 2017, Electricity Minister Kadakampally Surendran told the Assembly on Monday.
The Minister said that about 2.5 lakh houses remained to have electric connections. As many of these households could not afford to meet the expenditure, the funds would be made available by both the State Electricity Board and the Government. The Centrally sponsored schemes would also be tapped besides asset development funds of legislators.
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Thiruvananthapuram: Public Works Minister G. Sudhakaran said in the Assembly on Monday government proposed to lay 100 km of roads using plastic waste mixed with bitumen.
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UDF members staged a walk-out in the Assembly on Monday over police apathy in the investigation of the murder of Youth League worker K. P. Nasarudeen at Kuttiyadi in Vadakara taluk and extremist activities in the area.
Leading the walk-out, Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala said that the murder was planned. The RSS and SDPI were leading extremist activities in the State. However, the police were adopting a soft approach.
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