00:00Keralam Chief Minister V.D. Satishan has responded to all of the questions being asked by the opposition
00:05of him using a chartered plane and who's sponsoring it.
00:09V.D. Satishan has responded saying, I'll go ahead and fly on a chartered plane again.
00:14Essentially defending his move, he has said that the three-year chopper contract with the CMO had expired
00:21and therefore he was using a chartered flight.
00:24In fact, the opposition also raised the fact that ministers were travelling abroad,
00:27particularly pointing out to Minister Ramesh Chanitala who'd recently gone abroad
00:31questioning who had sponsored that particular trip.
00:34The Keralam Chief Minister has hit back, saying across the country, in every state, ministers go abroad.
00:39Why all of these questions over Keralam?
00:44I don't have any complaint that the ministers are going abroad.
00:49Across the country and across the world, the ministers are travelling.
00:54And I have to give sanctions to the ministers for going abroad.
00:59I have given sanctions.
01:01Let them go and learn many things from there.
01:05What is the problem they are going outside?
01:07The government is not spending money.
01:10They are going by the invitation of various organisations.
01:16So, VD Satishan highlighting the fact that for ministers, it's crucial to travel abroad,
01:21especially to areas, to countries like, in fact, the UAE,
01:26because of the fact that there's a large Malayali diaspora there as well.
01:30So, this is, in fact, in response to the opposition raising questions over him,
01:34using a chartered plane as well, which the Keralam Chief Minister says he will continue to do.
01:39So, let's cut across to more breaking news coming in.
01:41We'll see you next time.
