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The still smouldering fire at the Brahmapuram waste plant in Kochi was set "deliberately" to avoid inspection of the site where several years worth of garbage was lying accumulated, Congress-led UDF opposition alleged in the Kerala assembly on Monday. The government, on the other hand, said the fire appeared to have been caused due to the high temperatures in the state, but it was investigating the matter to find out the actual reasons for it. Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state assembly V D Satheesan claimed in the House that the fire has not yet been extinguished or even brought under control and alleged that neither the local administration nor the state government was doing anything to address the serious situation. The poisonous smoke generated from there, which has even entered homes of the areas neighbouring the waste plant, will cause both short and long term health problems for the people there, he contended in his submission in the House. The LoP, also an MLA from Nor

The Kerala Assembly on Thursday passed the contentious University Laws (Amendment) Bill 2022, which would result in curtailing the powers of the Governor as Chancellor of state universities. The opposition Congress-UDF boycotted the House proceedings before voting alleging that the government was trying to appoint "puppets" of the ruling party in key posts in varsities. Announcing their boycott, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly V D Satheesan said the Bill was an "insult" to the higher education sector of the state. The Bill would affect the autonomy of the universities and would set a wrong precedent in the higher education sector, he charged before walking out of the hall. However, Higher Education Minister R Bindu claimed that the opposition and media's propaganda that the Bill would strip the powers of the Governor was wrong. The Bill was passed at a time when the ruling CPI(M) was facing nepotism charges from opposition parties in connection with the faculty appointment in

Despite stiff opposition raised by the UDF members and their subsequent boycott, the Kerala Assembly on Tuesday passed the controversial Lok Ayukta (Amendment) Bill, which seeks to make the executive the appellate authority over reports by the anti-corruption watchdog. After hours-long heated arguments and debates, the opposition announced their boycott of the day's proceedings saying they did not want to witness the "killing" of the anti-corruption agency using its brute majority in the Assembly. Before walking out of the House, Leader of Opposition V D Satheesan said it was a "black day" in the history of the state Assembly. "The opposition cannot support the attempt made by the government to eliminate and weaken an anti-corruption agency. We are registering our stern opposition against passing this bill...we will fight it tooth and nail," he said. When the Congress-led opposition alleged that the bill, which carries away the rights of the constitutional agency, would weaken the

Congress-led UDF opposition on Monday continued their protest in the Kerala assembly against CPI(M) legislator M M Mani's controversial remarks against a woman MLA

: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala on Saturday staged a Statewide protest against rising fuel prices across the country.

Satheesan will be leading the 41 member UDF in the assembly

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who led theruling CPI(M)-headed LDF in Kerala to a resounding victory in the April 6 Assembly polls resigned from the post

Kerala election results 2021 LIVE updates: LDF rewrote history by breaking Kerala's four-decade-old trend of swinging between the communists and the UDF

The ruling LDF in Kerala was leading in 75 of the total 140 seats while opposition UDF was ahead in 56 segments as counting of votes for the April 6 assembly elections got underway on Sunday.

Counting of votes began at 8 am on Sunday in Kerala and in the initial rounds Metroman E.Sreedharan of the BJP was leading in the Palakkad Assembly constituency

As only few hours are left for the counting of votes for 140 constituencies in the Kerala Assembly polls to begin

Kerala election 2021 LIVE updates: The election is crucial for an array of BJP leaders including former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan, 'Metroman' E Sreedharan

Kerala heads in for Assembly elections on Tuesday with battle lines drawn between the ruling LDF and the Congress-led UDF, even as the BJP-led NDA is being seen as a potential threat in many places

Modi claimed the two fronts were envious, jealous and want to outdo each other in committing wrongs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described the two fronts as twins of misgovernance, corruption and political violence, among others.

PM Modi slammed opposition parties and stated that the fixed match of United Democratic Front (UDF) and Left Democratic Front (LDF) is going to be rejected by Kerala in the forthcoming polls

Piyush Goyal on Monday attacked the LDF-led Kerala government alleging corruption, nepotism and communalism and added that the only progress that Kerala witnessed was in the level of corruption

Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday said that in the upcoming Kerala assembly elections, people of the state will choose BJP to run the government as they are fed up with the UDF and LDF

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that people of Kerala are fed up with the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) and they now see BJP an alternative

Rahul Gandhi, who has been pushing for Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY), promised people of poll-bound Kerala that the scheme will be "tested" in the southern state if the party-led UDF is voted to power