PALAKKAD: Colourful flex boards, tall promises, grand roadshows, and political bickering. Although it initially looked like a contest between the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led UDF, the CPM came into the picture with an impressive campaign for P Sarin, which has had UDF leaders concerned. According to political pundits, if Sarin manages to increase LDF’s vote share he may split …
Congress-led United Democratic Front opposition unleashed an impassioned attack against the Left Democratic Front government for “shielding politically influential contractors who heartlessly jeopardised the health of eight lakh Kochi residents by setting fire to the plastic garbage hill at Brahmapuram to cover up their abject failure to dispose of the toxic legacy waste scientifically.” Opposition motion The chaos erupted when …
The blame game over the awarding of contract for biomining of legacy waste and processing of biodegradable waste on the Brahmapuram campus continued with former Mayor Tony Chammani raising corruption charges against Mayor M. Anilkumar. Though the Mayor claimed that the tender for biomining was floated by the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, it was the Kochi Corporation that finalised …
Tumultuous scenes were witnessed at the Kochi Corporation council meeting on Friday with Mayor M. Anilkumar staging a walkout in the face of protest by United Democratic Front councillors alleging corruption in the contract granted for running the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. UDF councillors who had staged a protest at the entry to the Corporation office arrived for the …
