T’PURAM: BJP state unit on Friday has asked the state government not to proceed with the K-Rail project.
BJP state president K Surendran said the ‘worrisome’ rail project should be dropped at the earliest as the objective of the same was not development, but large scale corruption.
Addressing a news conference, Surendran said the project would push the state into another debt trap. “It’s sad that chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan is trying to put pressure on the Union government for its support for K-Rail at a time when people in the state were weighed down by natural calamities, one after another. BJP state unit is of the opinion that the Centre should not give clearance to the project at any cost. The state government should drop the unviable project that would give more hardships to people,” Surendran said.
He wanted Vijayan to clarify why the government rejected the alternative project for K-Rail, proposed by Metroman E Sreedharan.
Surendran accused the Pinarayi Vijayan government of taking a proquarrying stand. This sort of approach of the state government was engineering natural disasters.
Surendran said the state government miserably failed to bring solace to people who lost everything in natural disasters. “The chief minister should clarify the status of the rehabilitation programmes announced during the last two floods. The government has not yet been able to carry out rehabilitation work in Kavalappara and Pettimudi,” Surendran said.
