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Sabari Rail: BJP threatens agitation

Staff Reporter

KOTTAYAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch an agitation seeking the implementation of the proposed Sabari Rail projects, party State secretary B. Radhakrishna Menon has said.

The project would help turn Sabarimala into one of the foremost pilgrim centres in India.

Addressing a press conference, Mr. Radhakrishna Menon alleged that anti-Hindu forces were attempting to scuttle the project.

"The same forces which worked behind the burning down of Sabarimala temple and Nilackal controversy are trying to thwart the development of Sabarimala as a pilgrim centre," he said.

He said the forces hindered the implementation of the Kottayam-Erumeli-Punalur line by whipping up resentment among those who would have been displaced by the project. The forces were adopting the same strategy to scuttle the Angamaly-Sabari rail line, he said.

If the State Government continued with its apathy towards the Sabari Rail project, the BJP would resort to an agitation, he said.

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