Thiruvananthapuram
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Friday skirmished over the mustering of funds by local bodies to conduct the Cabinet’s public outreach programme, Navakerala Sadas.
The debate unfolded against the backdrop of the Opposition’s accusation that the Cabinet had mobilised the State machinery and drawn on the public exchequer to organise a political campaign thinly veiled as public hearings.