Overview
- The 32-day session began in Thiruvananthapuram and is scheduled to run through March 26, with the state Budget to be presented on January 29 and a general debate slated for February 2–4.
- The policy document accuses the Centre of cutting a Rs 12,000 crore transfer in the final quarter, imposing borrowing and IGST adjustments that denied Rs 17,000 crore, and leaving Rs 5,650.45 crore in scheme dues pending.
- Buoyed by December local-body gains, the UDF plans to press fiscal management, welfare pension arrears, highway construction flaws, human–wildlife conflict, and alleged non-publication of commission findings.
- The LDF aims to counter by spotlighting welfare and infrastructure achievements, reiterating claims of central financial squeeze, and invoking the arrest of expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil in a sexual assault case.
- Flashpoints expected on the floor include arrests in the Sabarimala gold-loss case, notably former TDB president A. Padmakumar, alongside campaign dynamics after the CPI(M) central committee endorsed Pinarayi Vijayan to lead the front.