K-Rail protests rage, BJP claimed men erect uprooted survey stones on CM house premises

Protests continued in many parts of Kerala on Thursday against the proposed semi-high-speed rail corridor, Silverline, an ambitious infrastructure project of the CPM government. People gathered in large numbers in many villages along the proposed alignment for the project to prevent officials from surveying their land.

In the state capital, social activist Medha Patkar led a protest march to the state secretariat even as BJP workers sneaked into the chief minister’s official residence and erected concrete stones used for identifying land to be acquired for the project. Elsewhere, Youth Congress workers marched to the district headquarters in protest against the Rs 63,000-crore project.