Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 14:49 IST
The special session decision was taken in the backdrop of thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, camping at various Delhi borders demanding the repeal of the three agricultural laws. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan | Photo Credit: People
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government on Thursday decided to convene a special Assembly session against Central government s new farm laws on December 31. The state cabinet has decided to send a recommendation letter to Governor Arif Mohammad once again after it was earlier rejected.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that his government was hopeful that the Governor would accord sanction for the special session. This comes days after Governor Khan declined consent for the Left government in the southern state to convene a one-day session on December 23 to discuss the central laws and express solidarity with the agitating farmers.
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Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 24 (ANI): Kerala Cabinet has decided to recommend to Governor Arif Mohammad Khan for convening a session of state Assembly on December 31.
New Delhi: The central government on Thursday once again reached out to protesting farmers via a letter asking them to decide the date and time for the next round of talks. The government is committed to reaching logical solutions of the issues raised by you, it read. Earlier today, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted a memorandum supposedly containing two crore signatures seeking the President s intervention in the farm laws issue.
The farmer unions have asked the Modi government to come up with a new concrete proposal for resumption of talks, even as Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar stressed that dialogue was the only way for a solution and the government was committed to reforms in the farm sector.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], December 24 (ANI): Hitting back at Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, in a detailed letter said that he did not refuse to accede to the request for convening the special assembly session, but 'raised some questions' and instead of replying to it, the Chief Minister 'chose to bring in extraneous issues'.