Metro Man Sreedharan changes track, awaits green signal from Kerala

Can one man change the fortunes of over 3.48crore people? Well, at least one man thinks so, and that is Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, better known as “Metro Man”. Sreedharan took his fellow Keralites by surprise this week by announcing his decision to formally join the BJP and contest the elections in the Assembly elections scheduled sometime in April-may. Why BJP, which is struggling to take roots in a largely fertile red soil? Pat came the reply: “When you analyse the Kerala scenario, I see only BJP can deliver results for the state. Cpm-led LDF and Congress-led UDF are working for furthering their interests. Only BJP is working for the betterment of the country as well as the state.” If anyone wonders how an 88-year-old can bring about the transformation, Sreedharan replies without batting an eyelid, “There would be a landslide migration to BJP. I see several like-minded persons joining the BJP or supporting it in the elections.”

As one who is credited with the completion of the prestigious 900 km long Konkan Railway project in record seven years through the rough terrains of the Western Ghat, Sreeedharan should know of landslides. Leaving landslides aside to the future, Sreedharan has raised serious allegations about the current Left Front government led by CPM’S Pinarayi Vijayan, whose pet subject these days is “development”. According to Sreedharan, while there are “advertisements with photos of the Chief Minister and his Cabinet colleagues about development projects...the