
BJP to back resistance against K-rail
The Hindu
Surendran accuses LDF Govt. of ignoring people’s livelihood issues
A State leadership conclave of the BJP has decided to support the growing popular resistance against the LDF Government’s K-Rail project.
Party State president K. Surendran, who chaired the meeting, said the LDF Government had ignored people’s livelihood issues and desperately pushed ahead with the economically and environmentally unviable semi-high speed railway project, SilverLine.
The LDF was motivated by the massive scope for corruption and not the State’s interest. The Government had not studied the environmental impact of the project. Experts had raised doubts about its economic viability, he said.

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