Reconsider handing Trivandrum airport to Adani Group: Kerala government tells Modi

NEW DELHI : The Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI (M)-led state government of Kerala has asked the central government to reconsider its decision to award the state-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) operated Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) airport to Adani Enterprises Ltd on a 50-year-lease.

The Southern state’s chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the central government’s decision was in contravention to the assurances given by the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) in 2003, which stated that the central government would factor in the contributions made by the state government for the development of the Trivandrum airport.

“In view of the unilateral decision taken by the Government of India, without giving credence to the cogent arguments put forward by the state government, it will be difficult for us to offer cooperation to the implementation of the decision, which is against the wishes of the people of the state,” Vijayan said in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister.