Top Kerala news developments today

Key news developments in Kerala on Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Here are the important developments from Kerala to watch out for today:

1. Kerala Assembly today:

Opposition UDF to move adjournment motion on the crisis in the agriculture sector due to the crashing crop prices and the government’s failure to implement a responsive procurement and compensation policy.

The House is expected to pass the University Laws (Amendment) Bills seeking to remove the Governor as Chancellor of universities in the state. The UDF is opposing the provision in the bill to ha d over charge to the pro- Vice Chancellor or a Vice Chancellor of another university until eminent academics are identified to replace the Governor.

The Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill will also be passed by the House today.

2. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court is likely to take up for hearing an appeal filed by the State government against a single judge’s order upholding the appointment of Ciza Thomas, Senior Joint Director, Directorate of Technical Education, as Vice-Chancellor in-charge of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University.

3. A petition filed by Sabu Jacob, coordinator of the corporate-backed political party Twenty20, seeking to quash the FIR registered against him for humiliating P.V.Sreenijin MLA in public, is likely to come up before the High Court today.