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Thiruvananthapuram airport privatisation: Kerala govt calls all-party meet

The central government has approved the proposal for leasing out airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram through public-private partnership

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan
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Vijayan has already written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention and to reconsider the decision

Press Trust of India Thiruvananthapuram
The Kerala government on Thursday called an all-party-meeting to discuss and protest against the Centre's decision to hand over of the management and operation of the Thiruvananthapuram airport to the Adani group.
The meeting called by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will be held at 4 pm today and will be through video conferencing, a statement from the CMO said.
The Union Cabinet had on Wednesday approved the proposal for leasing out airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram through public-private partnership (PPP).
Adani Enterprises had won the rights to run six airports -- Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati -- through the PPP model

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