E Sreedharan Metro Man

The Centre is unlikely to give its approval for the SilverLine Project in Kerala as there were lot of faults in it, Metroman E Sreedharan said on Thursday, even as Pinarayi Vijayan asserted that his government would not back down from.

This comes months after he had contested in Kerala's assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.

'Metro Man' and BJP's freshly minted member E Sreedharan lost to Congress's Shafi Parambil by margin of 3,859 votes in Kerala's Palakkad.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Kerala today for "Metro Man" E Sreedharan, called the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition Congress-led UDF "only different in name" and said their "match-fixing" was the "worst kept secret" of Kerala politics. He also accused the LDF of "betraying Kerala for a few pieces of gold" like J...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Kerala today for "Metro Man" E Sreedharan, called the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition Congress-led UDF "only different in name" and said their "match-fixing" was the "worst kept secret" of Kerala politics.

Even though the party has just one legislator in the entire state but the BJP's outlook in next month's elections has become a keenly-watched subject all thanks to the entrance of a disruptor - 88-year-old technocrat E Sreedharan, dubbed "Metro Man" for his work on high-profile infrastructure and mass transit projects like the Delhi Metro.

Launching his campaign, BJP candidate in Palakkad "Metro Man" E Sreedharan on Monday said the party is fighting the elections on the plank of development and reasserted his claim that the NDA will formthe government in Kerala after the April 6 Assembly polls.

'Metro Man' and BJP's freshly minted member E Sreedharan will fight the Kerala assembly election from Palakkad, the party has said. The BJP has only one MLA in the state ruled by the Left Democratic Front, led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Freshly minted BJP member and 'metro man' E Sreedharan has explained why he joined politics just before the election to the Kerala legislative assembly. He greeted Home Minister Amit Shah in Kerala today at an election campaign.

E Sreedharan, the 'metro man' of India, will be the BJP's chief ministerial face for the Kerala election, Union Minister V Muraleedharan tweeted Thursday evening, shortly after K Surendran, the President of the party's state unit, made that request

The Kerala BJP on Wednesday constituted a 16 member state election committee for the April 6 assembly polls, with ''Metroman'' E Sreedharan, who joined the party recently, being one of them.

E Sreedharan, a retired engineer famous for spearheading the Delhi Metro project, has joined the BJP. The 88-year-old was welcomed in the party by Kerala BJP chief K Surendran at a meeting organised at Mallapuram on Thursday.

With technocrat E Sreedharan throwing his hat in the political ring by deciding to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said he is likely to have a "minimal" impact on the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls, and asserted that the BJP is not a serious contender except in a few seats in the state.

Kerala BJP President K Surendran on Sunday said that 'Metro man' E Sreedharan is suited to adorn any post in the state, including Kerala's Chief Minister's post.

Set to enter the political fray by joining the BJP next week, technocrat E Sreedharan, fondly known as India's 'Metro Man' today said his main aim is to help the party come to power in Kerala and that he will be open to chief ministership.

The Centre is unlikely to give its approval for the SilverLine Project in Kerala as there were lot of faults in it, Metroman E Sreedharan said on Thursday, even as Pinarayi Vijayan asserted that his government would not back down from.

This comes months after he had contested in Kerala's assembly elections from the Palakkad constituency on a BJP ticket but lost. The party failed to win even one seat in the state.

'Metro Man' and BJP's freshly minted member E Sreedharan lost to Congress's Shafi Parambil by margin of 3,859 votes in Kerala's Palakkad.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Kerala today for "Metro Man" E Sreedharan, called the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition Congress-led UDF "only different in name" and said their "match-fixing" was the "worst kept secret" of Kerala politics. He also accused the LDF of "betraying Kerala for a few pieces of gold" like J...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning in Kerala today for "Metro Man" E Sreedharan, called the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the opposition Congress-led UDF "only different in name" and said their "match-fixing" was the "worst kept secret" of Kerala politics.

Even though the party has just one legislator in the entire state but the BJP's outlook in next month's elections has become a keenly-watched subject all thanks to the entrance of a disruptor - 88-year-old technocrat E Sreedharan, dubbed "Metro Man" for his work on high-profile infrastructure and mass transit projects like the Delhi Metro.

Launching his campaign, BJP candidate in Palakkad "Metro Man" E Sreedharan on Monday said the party is fighting the elections on the plank of development and reasserted his claim that the NDA will formthe government in Kerala after the April 6 Assembly polls.

'Metro Man' and BJP's freshly minted member E Sreedharan will fight the Kerala assembly election from Palakkad, the party has said. The BJP has only one MLA in the state ruled by the Left Democratic Front, led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Freshly minted BJP member and 'metro man' E Sreedharan has explained why he joined politics just before the election to the Kerala legislative assembly. He greeted Home Minister Amit Shah in Kerala today at an election campaign.

E Sreedharan, the 'metro man' of India, will be the BJP's chief ministerial face for the Kerala election, Union Minister V Muraleedharan tweeted Thursday evening, shortly after K Surendran, the President of the party's state unit, made that request

The Kerala BJP on Wednesday constituted a 16 member state election committee for the April 6 assembly polls, with ''Metroman'' E Sreedharan, who joined the party recently, being one of them.

E Sreedharan, a retired engineer famous for spearheading the Delhi Metro project, has joined the BJP. The 88-year-old was welcomed in the party by Kerala BJP chief K Surendran at a meeting organised at Mallapuram on Thursday.

With technocrat E Sreedharan throwing his hat in the political ring by deciding to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said he is likely to have a "minimal" impact on the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls, and asserted that the BJP is not a serious contender except in a few seats in the state.

Kerala BJP President K Surendran on Sunday said that 'Metro man' E Sreedharan is suited to adorn any post in the state, including Kerala's Chief Minister's post.

Set to enter the political fray by joining the BJP next week, technocrat E Sreedharan, fondly known as India's 'Metro Man' today said his main aim is to help the party come to power in Kerala and that he will be open to chief ministership.