Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 3 -- Keralam chief minister VD Satheesan on Tuesday called for a serious discussion on how the legislature's audit watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, should handle findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) that fall "out of the constitutional audit purview through misconception in the audit approach".

"The CAG's audit approach sometimes shifts its manner; that defeats the very purpose of the audit. The question is, how Public Accounts Committee could approach such audit findings?" the chief minister said, referring to the 2G spectrum audit report in 2010 and the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport Project's report in 2017.

Speaking at the national conference of chairpersons o...