Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will visit Kozhikode in a few days to discuss issues concerning the Calicut International Airport. M.I. Shanavas, MP, said this while inaugurating a ‘Samaraponkala’ on Sunday. The ‘Samaraponkala’ was organised as part of an ongoing protest, demanding immediate steps to resume the renovation of the airport runway.
The Calicut Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Malabar Development Forum have been on an indefinite protest in Kozhikode for the last 6 days in this connection
Hundreds of people, especially women, took part in the ‘Samaraponkala’ that literally brought the region around Mananchira to a stand still. Kozhikode municipal corporation councillor and representative of All India Democratic Women’s Association Janamma Kunjunni, chairperson of the Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation P. Kulsu, State general secretary of the Youth Congress Vidya Balakrishnan and president of the women’s wing of Kerala Madyanirodhana Samithi O.J. Chinnamma took part in the protest.
