The business community in Kerala has upped the ante against the state government’s questioning of the Airports Authority of India (AAI)’s move to grant the rights of operation, management and development of the Thiruvananthapuram international airport to Adani Enterprises. Besides the state government moving the high court against the AAI, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, state secretary of the CPI (M), on Wednesday said the Adani group should back out of the 50-year lease contract.
Within hours of the CPI(M) top brass’s statement, as many as 35 assorted industry and trade organisations, including CII and G-Tech ( Group of Technopark companies), have come together to place a front-page ad on a leading Malayalam daily on Thursday, unequivocally dubbing “the airport privatisation” allegation as a “myth”. The undersigned for the ad is an apex outfit of various trade organisations that calls itself ‘Awake Trivandrum’.
