Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on March 22 alleged that the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is trying to clamp down on the protests against the SilverLine project like how Prime Minister Narendra Modi had tried to quell the farmers’ protest.
“Mr. Vijayan will be forced to finally accept defeat like how Mr. Narendra Modi had to bow down before the protest by the farmers,” he said in response to the Chief Minister’s position that the Government would go ahead with the project at any cost.
Criticising the Chief Minister, Ministers and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders of making contrary statements about the SilverLine project, Mr. Satheesan said that the Managing Director of K-Rail had rejected the statement by Minister for Culture Saji Cherian that there would be no buffer zone on either side of the project. “Let them first study the details of the project. It is good that they have placed leaders like Mr. Cherian and E.P. Jayarajan in the forefront of the tirade against the people and the United Democratic Front, as they are the comedians in the durbar of Mr. Vijayan,” he said.
