Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has deceived and misled the people of Aranmula as well as the State Legislature on the controversial private airport project at Aranmula, C. Divakaran, Legislature party leader of the Communist party of India, has said.
Mr. Divakaran was talking to reporters during his visit to Aranmula leading a 10-member delegation of party MLAs to take stock of the situation there on Wednesday.
The previous Left Democratic Front government had given an in-principle clearance for implementing the project only after complying with various provisions in the prevailing laws of the land.
Mr. Chandy had stated in the Assembly that the notification declaring a vast area of land as industrial area in the three villages of Aranmula, Mallappuzhaserry and Kidangannur, would be cancelled and no paddy land conversion would be permitted in Aranmula in the name of the airport project.
27/12/12 The Hindu
