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Friday, Jun 6, 2025
Pinarayi Vijayan said Sriram Venkitaraman's posting as Alappuzha Collector will not affect the case against him over the accident death of journalist KM Basheer.
The High Court was further informed that the Railways had not approved the social impact study and survey being carried out by Kerala Government.
The Governor’s letter to the Union Railway Minister was after Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the same, on July 13, 2021.
Vijayan said that the central government, which may have been in favour of the project at one time, was now thinking twice about it in view of the protests against the semi-high speed rail corridor.
The proposed K-Rail project, also known as the SilverLine semi-high speed rail corridor, connecting the north and south of Kerala, was one of the main poll planks for the Congress and the CPM in the byelection.
An unprecedented second term in Kerala's highest office has invariably led the CPM to think that it could get away with dictatorship. This defeat is a reminder that such reckless governance will not go unnoticed, K Surendran said.
The Centre said only an in-principal nod was given and this was to prepare a comprehensive DPR, nothing more. The state has failed to deliver that, it added.
The CPM has been portraying itself as a champion of development throughout the Thrikkakara campaign highlighting its ambitious SilverLine semi high-speed rail project.
The survey stones bearing the mark K-Rail were being laid on properties in the name of conducting Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for the rail project.
The water level is rising in the paddy fields of South Pallar and the nearby backwaters. If it continues to rain, the nearby houses will also be inundated, the residents pointed out.
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