prefer mitsubishi lancers and skodas some have requested for scorpios and corollas a dauphin helicopter has gone for overhaul but the cm hires helicopters he isnt ostentatious like lalu prasad yadav and devi lal kumaraswamy has a weakness for creatures bovine he has cows in his backyard k karunanidhithe staid amby is his official car he has three of them his personal liking is more flashy a merc and a scorpio with leftist leanings he and his party are known to be tight with expenditure during his 19962001 tenure train passengers to madurai and trichy often found the cm as their copassenger ministers were given scorpios while the chief secretary has a honda city v s achuthanandanwhat will a leftist cm drive to work an ambassador bang on keralas cm and ministers make do with 12 new ambys and eight old warhorses two broke down soon after the swearingin last month and two are on their last legs these frequent hiccups forced two ministers to shift to corollas and skodas the only mercedes it has is with governor r l bhatia all state cms in the past 15 years have used only ambassadors its a symbol of simplicity explains an official as for choppers forget it the kerala government has neither choppers boats or ships to call its own