It shouldn’t be Silverline however ‘darkish line’ for Kerala: Medha Patkar

Express News Service

KASARAGOD: The Ok-Rail’s Silverline rail line undertaking, which proposes to attach Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram in 4 hours, can be the “dark line” of Kerala, mentioned social activist Medha Patkar. “It is not Silverline but a dark line,” she mentioned.

Patkar was talking to reporters in Kasaragod on Sunday.

Patkar, who visited a number of homes of people that will lose land to the Silverline undertaking in Keezhur, mentioned the state authorities had no thought of the destruction the undertaking would trigger to the state and the individuals of the state. “The project may start from Kasaragod but it will be stopped by the people before it reaches Thiruvananthapuram,” she mentioned.

She mentioned the CPM mustn’t neglect what occurred to the occasion after it tried to disregard the individuals and tried to amass land for an industrial undertaking in West Bengal’s Nandigram. “Those who are going ahead with Silverline have learned nothing from Nandigram,” she mentioned.

In 2007, the CPM-led West Bengal authorities tried to forcibly purchase land to construct a particular financial zone to arrange a petroleum, chemical substances and petrochemicals hub. The individuals’s protest led to the police and CPM occasion employees clashing with the farmers and land losers in Nandigram, leaving a number of individuals useless. The authorities needed to abandon the undertaking.

In Maharashtra, Patkar mentioned, the CPM joined arms with farmers and social activists to protest towards the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet prepare undertaking. “We joined hands to protest against Coca-Cola in Plachimada,” she mentioned. “I hope the LDF government will not go ahead with the Silverline project. It affects life and nature,” she mentioned.