Thiruvananthapuram: Decks appear to have been cleared for the one-day session of the Kerala assembly on December 31 to discuss and pass a resolution against the three contentious farm laws of the Centre against which farmers are protesting in Delhi.
According to sources, the clarification sought by Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has been given by the government and Khan gave his consent for the session on Monday.
The governor had earlier turned down the plea of the LDF government to convene a special session on December 23 to discuss the new laws, saying Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had not addressed the question raised by him on the nature of emergency warranating the very brief session.
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In a letter to Vijayan, he had also stated that the government wanted the special session to "discuss a problem for which you have no jurisdiction to offer any solution".
Vijayan had shot off a letter to Khan on December 22 describing as regrettable his decision while asserting that the governor was bound by the advice of the Council of Ministers and that moving resolutions and conducting discussions in the assembly "cannot be regulated by gubernatorial powers".
