UDF pamphlet on K-Rail highlights disquiet in LDF
The Hindu
It questions economic, social, eco viability of SilverLine
The pamphlet brought out by the United Democratic Front (UDF) questioning the economic, social and environmental viability of K-Rail (SilverLine) spotlights the “disquiet” in the Left Democratic Front (LDF) about the semi high-speed- rail project.
The propaganda sheet points out that the Communist Party of India (CPI ) and the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) had echoed the concerns raised by the UDF, though belatedly.
[A CPI State council meeting had reportedly felt that the government should keep land acquisition in abeyance until it negated public doubts about compensation and rehabilitation of those displaced by the project. However, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said in Idukki that the government would forge ahead with the project.]
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