BJP’s push for CPM’s much-hyped Kerala high-speed rail worries Congress
Kerala CPM government’s much-hyped high-speed rail project has got a major boost with the BJP state leadership backing an alternative suggested by ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan, who was a BJP candidate in the last Kerala Assembly elections.
The ongoing fast-paced developments over the project, which was on the back burner for almost a year, have triggered concerns in the Congress camps that it is a political strategy of the ruling CPM in Kerala and the BJP at the centre against the Congress.
A day after Congress leader turned Kerala CPM government’s special envoy in Delhi, K V Thomas, calling on Sreedharan and seeking alternative suggestions, Sreedharan submitted a detailed note for reworking the existing detailed project report of the proposed semi-high-speed rail line, titled Silver Line.
