Kerala delegation meets PM on HC bench issue

New Delhi, Sep 6 (UNI) A high-level Kerala delegation led by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention to meet the long pending demand for a bench of the Kerala High Court in Thiruvananthapuram.

Kerala Law Minister M Vijayakumar, and Varkala Radhakrishnan and Panniyan Ravindran, both MPs, were also part of the delegation.

Dr Singh assured the delegation that he would talk to Law Minister H R Bhardwaj in regard to the Thiruvananthapuram bench issue and see if procedures could be started in this regard, Mr Vijayakumar and Mr Chandy told mediapersons.

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