Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said Kerala would move the Supreme Court against the Centre’s alleged trespasses on fiscal federalism.
Speaking to journalists in Thiruvananthapuram on the final day of the Cabinet’s State-wide public outreach programme, Navkerala Sadas, Mr. Vijayan accused the Centre of financially strangulating Kerala.
He said the Centre, by a conservative estimate, owed Kerala an estimated ₹64,000 crores. He said the Union Government had halted GST compensation, slashed Kerala’s revenue deficit grant, hauled down the State’s borrowing limit, and pared down the provincial government’s revenue share from the divisive pool. Mr. Vijayan also accused the Centre of withholding the Union Government’s stake in mega infrastructure developmental projects in Kerala.
