Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary C.T. Ravi has said the Central leadership of the party will solidly back its State unit’s campaign against the SilverLine semi-high-speed railway project.
Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Mr. Ravi said the SilverLine project linking Thiruvananthapuram to Kasraagod was unlikely to get approval from the Centre at this stage. The project was technically and financially unviable. Besides, it was not environmental-friendly for Kerala, he said.
The BJP, he said, was not putting hurdles in the State government’s agenda of development. However, projects should be conceived in a people-friendly manner instead of causing great and irreparable damage. The SilverLine project was more destructive than constructive, Mr. Ravi alleged.
