The ongoing anti-SilverLine protests showed no signs of abating for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. Revenue surveyors faced stiff opposition from Congress workers at Chottinikkara in Ernakulam. They uprooted K-Rail markers and dumped them in a nearby pond.
Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan reiterated the Congress workers' resolve to court arrest and embrace incarceration to protect local communities from the government's highhandedness.
BJP State president K. Surendran ratcheted up his party’s resistance to K-Rail. He alleged big-ticket corruption in the project. For a sizeable commission, the government had allowed a private company in Japan to palm off discarded railway technology to Kerala at a massive cost to the taxpayer.
