CM was reacting to Governor Arif Mohammed Khan calling a group of protesting SFI members 'criminals', and to his remarks related to the Kannur region of the state.
Mumbai's Malabar Hill Raj Bhavan was essentially the Buckingham Palace of the East. Running these are like looking after a white elephant: with a budget worth crores.
Arif Mohammed Khan has had frequent run-ins with Pinarayi Vijayan govt in Kerala over issues like vice-chancellor appointments & 'delaying' key bills. Excerpts from an exclusive interview.
Tensions between Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Kerala government began soon after he entered the Raj Bhawan in 2019, with one spat leading to another ever since.
Ordinance removing Kerala governor as chancellor of state universities will lapse unless passed in assembly. Governor Khan himself had suggested the move to CM Vijayan in 2021.
Both CM Pinarayi Vijayan and governor Arif Mohammad Khan were keen to maintain a cordial equation, but consequent to Kerala CM winning a second term in 2021, things began to unravel.
Khan, now governor of Kerala, has kept controversy alive in his almost 50-year political career that spans Charan Singh’s BKD, Congress, Janata Dal, BSP, LJP and BJP.
Days after Governor Arif Mohammad Khan called for resignation of 11 V-Cs, he asked CM to take action against state finance minister over speech at Kerala University. CM has said ‘no’.
Governor Arif Mohammed Khan signed the ordinance a day after Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan had appraised him of the circumstances that led to an ordinance to amend the Lokayukta Act.
During a conclave in Delhi Saturday, the Kerala Governor also asserted that India's civilisation and 'cultural heritage' have 'no concept of discrimination' on the basis of religion.
The Kaveri experience is a story of a glass more than half full. We have developed a functional engine and accrued data points and experience at a relatively low cost. Now is the time to build better.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
Speaking at inaugural plenary of CII Annual Business Summit, Singh also underlines role of homegrown defence systems during and in aftermath of Operation Sindoor.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
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