BS READS: How Kerala shot itself in foot in battle with Adani for Trivandrum airport

The state govt made allegations it couldn't substantiate and drew parallels that were summarily dismissed while seeking to cancel Adani's contract

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BS Reads | Airports Authority of India | Kerala

Sai Manish  |  New Delhi 

Eight cases over the last year. A battery of more than 30 lawyers.

A former minister, two ‘frequent fliers’, a labour union, the Kerala government and its commercial arm, the Adani group, the Modi government, Airports Authority of India (AAI), the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), a self-proclaimed social activist claiming to be the inventor of the abbreviation ‘PPP’ and a business lobby engaged in a litany of suits and counter-suits against each other. Claims of a smoking gun that turned out to be a damp squib. Hickey horsing between the ...

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First Published: Tue, November 03 2020. 12:49 IST
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