The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s flagship public outreach programme, Navakerala Sadas, meandered into its fifth and final day in the Kannur district on Wednesday, leaving a slipstream of positive and negative perceptions.
The Kannur leg of the programme saw the Cabinet conferring at a hotel in Thalassery, arguably a one-off meeting which stood out for its historical rarity.
It also drew severe criticism for lining lower primary schoolchildren under the harsh sun on the road in Thalassery to “hail Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan” as the air-conditioned luxury bus ferrying the Cabinet swept past.
