Unleashing a full-scale attack for “squeezing” Kerala financially through alleged unconstitutional and illegal means, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has termed the State Government’s decision to approach the Supreme Court against the Union Government “a historic fight” to preserve federalism.
Addressing the media at Kuravilangad in Kottayam district on December 14 (Thursday) in connection with the ongoing Navakerala Sadas, Mr. Vijayan said the Centre’s “discriminatory and vindictive actions” on the financial front were aimed at throwing Kerala into dire straits. The petition (in Supreme Court), according to him, seeks to restore the “Constitutional rights of State Governments.”
“The key aspects highlighted in the petition are the unconstitutional interference by the Centre in the State’s financial affairs, the unconstitutional cuts to eligible borrowing limits and inclusion of the State’s public account liabilities and borrowings by State-owned enterprises in the borrowing limit etc., among other things,” he said.
