As many as 602 questions raised by legislators have gone unanswered in the seventh session of 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly that concluded on Thursday.
As per a bulletin issued by the Assembly, a total of 4,236 questions were raised by the legislators during the sitting of the House from August 7 to 23.
The 602 questions that remained unanswered are on the basis of the data till 4 p.m. on August 23, Legislature Secretary V.K. Babu Prakash was quoted in the bulletin.
The House met on Thursday and the number of unanswered questions that remained on the last day of the session is not known.
In the fifth session of the Assembly in May, Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan chastised the government for not providing answers to questions raised by the legislators in the Assembly.
The Speaker had ruled that a probe conducted by his office had corroborated the Leader of the Opposition’s charge that questions, mostly unstarred ones for which answers are provided in written format, were virtually going unanswered. The Speaker said despite repeated reminders 240 questions still remained to be answered.
The ruling was on the basis of the May 10 letter by Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala that all of the 333 unstarred questions, except 19, supposed to be answered on the day were left blank. Of this, 113 questions related to the Home Department under the Chief Minister.