Vijayan moves resolution to reconsider decision to lease Trivandrum airport

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday moved a resolution in the State Assembly urging the Central Government to reconsider its decision to hand over operations and supervision of Trivandrum International Airport through Public-Private Partnership.

Earlier, Vijayan has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to reconsider the decision to “hand over the management and operation of the Trivandrum International Airport to a private bidder”.

In a letter, the Chief Minister said that a meeting of leaders of all political parties in the state was convened through video conference and “the overwhelming view that emerged in the meeting, barring a lone voice to the contrary,