Kerala Assembly | Opposition walks out accusing govt. of undermining State’s market intervention strategy to ‘aid’ retail giants
The Hindu
UDF walked out of the Kerala Assembly on February 13 (Tuesday) accusing the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of scuttling the Food and Civil Supplies department’s market intervention programme by depriving Supplyco of direly needed funding
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) walked out of the Kerala Assembly on February 13 (Tuesday) accusing the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government of scuttling the Food and Civil Supplies department’s market intervention programme by depriving Supplyco of direly needed funding.
The treasury benches pushed back by stating that the Opposition United Democratic Front’s (UDF) adjournment motion notice seeking the leave of the House to discuss the issue was intriguingly “devoid of any criticism” against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister G.R. Anil said the Centre’s “financial embargo” on Kerala had impaired the State’s market intervention strategy.
“Supplyco shelves were empty of certain basic provisions subsidised by the State. The government is struggling to rectify the situation precipitated by the Centre’s refusal to accord Kerala its share of the national revenue”, Mr. Anil said.
He said the Centre had also whittled down its revenue component for State-funded public health, noon meals for children, women’s empowerment, education, and food subsidy schemes.
Mr. Anil took an oblique swipe at Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader N.K. Premachandran by pointing out that “some UDF allies dined rapturously with Prime Minister Narendra Modi” even as the Centre strangulated the State’s finances to perforate Kerala’s social security net that benefited ordinary families and marginalised sections of society.
Congress legislator Shafi Parambil said the CPI State Council had slammed the CPI(M)‘s “pitched attempt” to deprive Mr. Anil’s department of funds to subsidise essential provisions such as rice, sugar and pulses and underwrite the noon meal scheme and procure paddy from farmers.
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