UDF stages walkout in Kerala Assembly over ASHA workers’ protest
The workers have been on strike outside the Secretariat for the past 40 days, demanding a hike in their honorarium and post-retirement benefits.
The workers have been on strike outside the Secretariat for the past 40 days, demanding a hike in their honorarium and post-retirement benefits.
The ongoing agitation by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers for fair remuneration, now in its 24th day, led to a major disruption in the Kerala Assembly on Tuesday.
The Congress-led Opposition UDF staged a walkout in the Kerala Assembly on Monday in protest against a proposal to impose toll on roads built with the funds from the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) and the slow pace of various infrastructure projects being executed by the agency.
The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) opposition walked out of the Kerala Assembly on Wednesday in protest against the non-disbursal of arrears related to pay revision and Dearness Allowance (DA) to the government employees and teachers in the state.
The stand taken by Kerala opposition leader VD Satheesan, asserting that the controversial land at Munambam in Kochi is not Waqf property, has sparked divisions within the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her poll debut from the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, secured a historic victory with a record-breaking margin of over 4 lakh votes over her nearest rival, LDF’s Sathyan Mokeri, surpassing the record set by her brother Rahul Gandhi.
The high-octane, month-long public campaign for the Palakkad Assembly by-election concluded on Monday evening with grand roadshows organized by the three major political fronts—the Congress-led UDF, the CPI(M)-headed LDF, and the BJP-led NDA.
The ruling CPI-M-led LDF and the Opposition Congress-led UDF in Kerala called for a hartal in the Wayanad district on Tuesday
Senior Congress leader and Opposition leader in the Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan, has written to the Election Commission seeking the rescheduling of the bypoll in Palakkad due to the Kalpathi Ratholsavam.
The Congress-led UDF opposition walked out of the Kerala Assembly on Friday in protest against the Speaker’s refusal to allow a notice moved by a UDF MLA to adjourn the House and discuss the Justice Hema Committee report, which exposed the condition of women in the Malayalam film industry.
