In an apparent change of tack on SilverLine, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has signalled that it would not unqualifiedly oppose the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s bid to develop a rapid mass transit railway system for Kerala.
BJP State President K. Surendran, who called on metro rail expert E. Sreedharan at the latter’s residence in Ponnani, said the bonafide high-speed railway system proposed by the “metro man” was an efficient improvement and viable alternative to the State government’s flagship semi-high-speed K-Rail (SilverLine) project.
The high-profile visit came against the backdrop of Mr. Sreedharan asking the State government to drop SilverLine and, instead, implement a proper high-speed rail transit system that would integrate seamlessly with similar networks coming up in other regions.
