THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Cabinet will discuss the final report of the state’s chief secretary S M Vijayanand on the 'budget leak' controversy, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Assembly on Monday.
The chief minister's announcement came after the opposition UDF stalled the Assembly proceedings and demanded an inquiry by an Assembly panel. Pinarayi Vijayan said the chief secretary's interim report on the budget leak controversy has ruled out that the state budget for 2017-18 was leaked.
No documents related to the budget were leaked, according to the report submitted to the government, the chief minister said, defending finance minister T M Thomas Isaac in the Assembly.
Earlier in the morning, speaker P Sreeramakrishnan temporarily stopped the proceedings on account of the opposition protests. Kerala Congress (M) and the BJP staged a walkout protesting the 'leak'.