Overview

• Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan led a team of ministers and senior officials in New Delhi, holding back‑to‑back meetings with Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and J. P. Nadda and submitting a detailed memorandum.
• The state’s asks included enhanced coastal security, upgrades to forensic capacity and emergency services, and measures focused on women’s safety.
• Kerala sought a review of Left Wing Extremism district listings affecting Kannur and Wayanad.
• On infrastructure, the delegation urged faster execution of NH‑66 and pressed for sanction of corridors such as the proposed Thiruvananthapuram Ring Road.
• Vijayan also raised health priorities including a National Institute for Geriatric Care and the long‑pending demand for an AIIMS, as the state framed the outreach as above partisan politics with an expected meeting with the Prime Minister next.