Kerala Chief Minister with assorted LDF leaders right thru the narrate against the Central govt’s insurance policies in opposition to the Bid, at Martyrs Column Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (January 12, 2026).
| Photo Credit score: Nirmal Harindran
A excessive-profile narrate led by the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala against the insurance policies of the BJP-led Union govt began at the Martyrs’ Column in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (January 12, 2025) morning with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan describing it as a “fight for survival” in an unheard of peril “the assign the Bid is being discriminated against and denied its rightful fragment” of monetary sources and pork up.
Accusing the Centre of adopting “a biased and vengeful angle” in opposition to Kerala, Mr. Vijayan stated the Bid is stressful ultimate what’s Constitutionally eligible to it. Thru its insurance policies, the Centre used to be attempting to hinder the Bid’s development and weaken it, he alleged.
Responding to remarks made by Union House Minister Amit Shah right thru his talk over with to Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, Mr. Vijayan stated the latter’s dreams will not be going to materialise in Kerala. “Opposite to Mr. Shah’s claims, Kerala’s tax fragment has truly dipped right thru the 15th Finance Commission when put next to the 14th,” he stated.
He moreover requested Mr. Shah to give an explanation for the Centre’s stand on NITI Aayog CEO B.V.R. Subrahmanyam’s remarks that the Narendra Modi govt tried to make the 14th Finance Commission slit the tax fragment of States. “High Minister Narendra Modi has not denied it so a ways. Mr. Shah ought to moreover appreciate thrown mild on this matter,” Mr. Vijayan stated.
Affords figures
Mr. Vijayan presented an array of figures to pork up the Bid govt’s charge that Kerala used to be being discriminated against by the Centre. The Centre has slashed ₹5,900 crore from the Bid’s eligible borrowing restrict of ₹12,000 crore for the January-March quarter of the fresh fiscal, he stated. Payments pending from Centre, till September 2025, amounted to ₹5,783.69 crore. This involves ₹636.88 crore, ₹750.93 crore below UGC advantages, ₹324 crore below the Central fragment of social safety pensions, ₹1,206.69 for paddy procurement, ₹1248.13 crore below Samagra Shiksha Kerala, ₹974.68 crore below Jal Jeevan Mission, ₹200.2 crore below Poshan Abhiyan, ₹161.63 crore below fisheries style schemes, ₹54.19 crore below food safety schemes, ₹43.44 crore below Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, ₹37.40 crore below dairy style schemes and ₹55.51 crore below girls and puny one style schemes.
Kerala Chief Minister with assorted LDF leaders right thru the narrate against the Central govt’s insurance policies in opposition to the Bid, at Martyrs Column Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (January 12, 2026).
| Photo Credit score:
Nirmal Harindran
Kerala moreover stood to lose ₹3,544 crore thru the Centre’s stipulations concerning man-days below the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G), the Chief Minister stated. “These makes an strive can’t be seen as focusing on LDF alone, but they affect all sections of the folks and the Bid,” he stated, calling for a united stand against the Central insurance policies.
The Chief Minister accused the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) of refusing to raise its remark to give protection to the Bid’s pursuits. The Congress used to be but to recognise that its tacit pork up for the BJP is self-harmful. “They appreciate turn out to be a community that’s not hesitant to place on the adorns of the RSS assuredly,” he alleged. He moreover demanded the Opposition to give an explanation for what it stood to compose from its stand.
Centre’s anti-folks polices: LDF convener
LDF convener T.P. Ramakrishnan alleged that the Centre used to be persecuting Kerala by imposing an financial blockade. “That is narrate is meant to expose the Centre’s anti-folks polices and its treatment of the Bid,” he stated.
The narrate moreover comes before the tabling of the Union Budget on February 1 and the Bid Meeting elections in the main half of of this year.
In February 2024, Mr. Vijayan had led a scamper at Jantar Mantar in Quiet Delhi against the ‘assault on federalism’ by the Centre. Kerala had moreover approached the Supreme Court against Central insurance policies.
Revenue Minister K. Rajan presided. Ministers, CPI(M) Bid secretary M.V. Govindan, CPI Bid secretary Binoy Viswam, and Left MLAs were among those video display.
Printed – January 12, 2026 01:35 pm IST
