Amid mounting protests from Opposition parties and organisations in Kerala, the BJP-led government at the Centre is weighing its options before giving a green signal to the SilverLine project of the Kerala Rail Development Corporation Limited (K-Rail).
While the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government is aggressively pushing the proposed ₹63,941 crore semi-high speed rail project, the Prime Minister’s Office ( PMO) has still not favourably responded to the ambitious initiative in Kerala.
Perhaps this may have prompted the Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan to comment that he had no idea whether the PMO would give approval for the project.