Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has slammed the Centre accusing it of choking funds for the State and slashing the borrowing limits of the government.
Accusing the Centre of adopting an antagonistic stance towards Kerala’s development, Mr. Vijayan flagged its purported double standards by delinking the mounting debt of Central agencies like National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) from the Union government’s liabilities. Such a stance contradicted its move to consider Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB)’s loans as part of the State’s debt.
While replying to questions in the Assembly on Tuesday, he questioned the “biased attitude” that had resulted in a cut in the State’s public borrowing limit,
