Alappuzha (Kerala), Sep 30 (PTI) Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Tuesday said that if the Centre is not setting up an AIIMS in this coastal Kerala district, then as an MP from Thrissur, he has the right to seek where it should be established.

The Union Minister of State for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Tourism also said that his remarks about the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) were only a reiteration of his past stand regarding the medical institute coming to Kerala and not aimed at opposing anyone.

"I have not said AIIMS should go to Thrissur as I won from there. I did not make any such promise..," he said at a public gathering here.

The Thrissur MP said that the state government cannot say that the AIIMS should be set up in the land it has designated.

"It has to be estab

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