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Chennai:
The opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu instantly opposed the Centre’s decision to “privatise” airports, saying the switch “usurps the rights and autonomy from the State.”
In an apparent reference to the Centre deciding to lease out three airports, along with the one at Thiruvananthapuram, DMK president MK Stalin described the selection as “unilateral” and demanded its revocation.
“The Center’s unilateral decision to privatise airports usurps the rights and autonomy from the State,” he acknowledged in a tweet.
“It violates the pledge made in 2003 that any proposal concerning airport privatisation would be made only in consultation with the state government and must be revoked,” Mr Stalin added.
The BJP-led NDA authorities had earlier decided to lease out airports at Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram by means of public-private partnership (PPP) mode to Adani Enterprises, a switch criticised by the opposition.
Incidentally, the ruling CPI-M in Kerala had convened an all-party meeting on Thursday and demanded for the withdrawal of the Union Cabinet decision to lease out the airport at Thiruvananthapuram.
Adani Enterprises has obtained the rights to run six airports– Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram–through the PPP model after a aggressive bidding course of in February, 2019.
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