{"id":369467,"date":"2020-08-24T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369467"},"modified":"2020-08-24T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T03:31:32","slug":"thiruvananthapuram-airport-kerala-govt-hire-firm-close-to-adani-group-congress-demands-clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thiruvananthapuram-airport-kerala-govt-hire-firm-close-to-adani-group-congress-demands-clarification\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiruvananthapuram airport: Kerala govt hire firm close to Adani group, Congress demands clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala on Saturday asked the LDF government to clarify the alleged involvement of a firm close to the Adani Group in the state&#8217;s bidding process for privatisation of the Thiruvananthapuram airport.<\/p>\n<p>The CPI(M)-led state government and the opposition Congress has opposed the Union Cabinet&#8217;s approval to lease the Thiruvananthapuram airport to Adani Enterprises through PPP for a period of 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reports of the state government seeking legal advice on the bidding process from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, a firm owned by a close relative of Adani, raise concerns. If true, this shows a nexus between the state government and the Adani Group,&#8221; Chennithala said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala on Saturday asked the LDF government to clarify the alleged involvement of a firm close to the Adani Group in the state&#8217;s bidding process for privatisation of the Thiruvananthapuram airport. The CPI(M)-led state government and the opposition Congress has opposed the Union Cabinet&#8217;s approval to lease the Thiruvananthapuram airport to Adani Enterprises through PPP for a period of 50 years. &#8220;Reports of the state government seeking legal advice on the bidding process from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, a firm owned by a close relative of Adani, raise concerns. If true, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}