In wrapping up his policy address in a little over one minute on January 25 (Thursday), Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan made the shortest policy speech to date in the Kerala Assembly.
The ‘record’ so far was the one made by then Governor Jothi Venkatachalam at the seventh session of the sixth Kerala Assembly on January 29, 1982. Assembly records show that Jothi Venkatachalam’s policy address had lasted six minutes.
Back then, the Governor had wound up her speech following Opposition uproar in the House over certain political developments in Kerala. K. Karunakaran was the Chief Minister at the time.