Pinarayi Vijayan defends rail project as Opposition raises questions

Amidst the ideological questions being raised against the CPM over the proposed semi-high-speed rail project in Kerala, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said at the CPM party congress that the government was trying its best to implement the rail project.

Vijayan alleged in his welcome address at the party congress at Kannur in Kerala that the opposition parties in Kerala (Congress and BJP) were raising arguments that defy logic.

Meanwhile, sources said that the party delegates from Maharashtra may take up the matter in the party congress.

The statement of Vijayan, who is also a politburo member of the CPM, came at a time when the CPM was accused of maintaining a double standard by opposing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed-rail project and taking forward the semi-high-speed rail project in Kerala.