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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

SilverLine protests rock Kerala for the fourth day

The SilverLine (K-Rail) protests, backed by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), panned out across Kerala for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday.

The increasingly strident resistance to the semi-high-speed railway project also reverberated in New Delhi with the local police ‘roughing up’ United Democratic Front (UDF) MPs who marched to the Parliament demanding that the Centre cancel the ‘quixotic’ project.

Leader of Opposition V. D. Satheesan and KPCC president K. Sudhakaran, MP, alleged that the police action against UDF leaders indicated a tacit understanding between the CPI(M) and the BJP to implement K-Rail. They condemned the New Delhi police’s ‘highhandedness.’

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