Kerala Assembly: Stormy session on the cards as House set to convene ahead of local body polls
The Hindu
13th session of Kerala Legislative Assembly anticipates political turmoil ahead of local body elections, with LDF and UDF clash.
A politically tumultuous sitting appears to be in the offing as the 13th session of the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly commences on Friday (January 17, 2025) ahead of the upcoming local body elections later this year.
On the face of it, the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) seemed to have dampened the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Opposition’s move to attack the government on the House floor by pushing the Kerala Forest (Amendment) Bill, 2024 to the back burner.
However, the LDF’s gambit to snatch the wind from the UDF’s sails on the animating issue will unlikely put the Opposition on the back foot in the Assembly.
It will seek to hold the government to account for its alleged failure to prevent “increasing” wild animal attacks on humans and economically devastating raids on croplands by marauding wild elephants and feral boars.
On Wednesday (January 15, 2025), Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan appeared to take an early defence by stating that the Wild Life Act of 1972 precluded the State government from effectively mitigating human-wildlife conflict.
A senior Opposition leader told The Hindu that the UDF has several issues to hold the government’s feet to the fire in the Assembly.
He said the Opposition would rake up the Cabinet’s “dubious, unilateral and norm-breaking” decision to award a global liquor company brewing and distilling permits.
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