Metroman E Sreedharan speaks about RSS days, Love Jihad, Beef-eating

One of India’s biggest engineers E Sreedharan, fondly often called ‘Metro man’, is all set to affix the BJP through the Rath Yatra in Kerala. Dr E Sreedharan, who’s instrumental in envisioning and designing the nation’s fashionable railway infrastructure, can also contest the upcoming Kerala meeting elections as a BJP candidate.
Nearly a day after expressing his want to be a part of the BJP, Sreedharan has additionally revealed attention-grabbing particulars about his previous affiliation with the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in his yesteryears. Disclosing his decades-old affiliation with RSS, Dr Sreedharan stated that he’s a Swayamsevak from his faculty days, and Sangh had laid all of the foundational values on this life.
Speaking to NDTV, technocrat E Sreedharan stated that he has misplaced religion in all different political events and determined to affix BJP as a consequence of its progressive outlook. The Padma Vibhushan awardee engineer additionally heaped praises on PM Modi and former Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee.
“I got great admiration for PM Modi personally but, that alone is not the thing. I have a good rapport with (Atal) Vajpayee, who was the previous prime minister. Very good rapport with him in fact, he only opened the first section of Delhi Metro.. and his conduct, the way he was behaving was very impressive to me,” stated E Sreedharan, talking to NDTV.
Love Jihad is actual, Hindus are tricked in a wedding, says technocrat Sreedharan
One of the most important highlights of Dr Sreedharan’s interview was his unequivocal opposition to the menace of “love jihad”. Love Jihad is the barbaric act typically carried out by Muslims to forcefully convert the non-Hindus, particularly Hindus, by trapping them via marriage as a result of he had seen in Kerala that Hindu ladies have been tricked into marriage. 
Responding to NDTV’s query on the menace of “love jihad”, Dr Sreedharan stated, “Love Jihad, yes, I see what is happened in Kerala. How Hindus are being tricked in a marriage and how they suffer… not only Hindus, Muslim, the Christian girls are being tricked in a marriage. Now that sort of a thing I certainly will oppose.”
His feedback in opposition to ‘Grooming Jihad’ comes amidst the rising occasion of spiritual conversion carried out by Muslims via methods of fraud, coercion or marriage.
‘BJP is party of nation lovers, I don’t like folks consuming beef’: Dr Sreedharan
Dr Sreedharan additionally spoke in regards to the controversy surrounding beef within the state of Kerala. “Personally, I am a very, very strict vegetarian. I don’t even eat eggs, so, certainly, I don’t like anybody eating meat. That is certain…” he stated, in response to a query on beef-eating in Kerala and the BJP’s marketing campaign in opposition to cow meat.
The former chief of Delhi Metro additionally stated that it was mistaken to painting BJP as a communal occasion at this time within the nation. Dr Sreedharan asserted that BJP was a celebration of nation lover and never a communal occasion.
“I have got such a long association with people in BJP – it is not a communal party at all. It is a party consisting of nation lovers and who accept that all parties, all communities are alike as far as they’re concerned. That is the attitude of the Modi government. I can see the way he speaks, I have never seen him at any time attacking any religion. This religious bias in an unnecessarily taunt on BJP and very unjust, according to me,” the previous technocrat added.
The 88-year-old technocrat stated that his goal was to deliver the occasion into energy in Kerala and added that he was open to the chief ministership. He additionally stated the main target could be on growing infrastructure if the BJP emerges victorious within the meeting polls, more likely to be held in April-May this yr.