Thiruvananthapuram : BJP state president K Surendran is spinning sabotage to the development works that will pave six lanes for national highways from Kasaragod Thiruvananthapuram, said Public Works Minister Muhammad Riyas. . The State Government is doing a commendable job by making interventions where necessary to smoothen the national highway development works of Centre. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and National Highways Authority have appreciated the State government over this. However , K Surendran just can't grasp it, said Riyas at a press conference. It is Surendran’s hypocrisy that makes him call the State government “8-legged mamoonj (a false credits taker)” who has not contributed a single naya paisa. Centre’s allocation t is not charity to State, rather, it is Kerala’s right, said Riyas.
The State government has said before it will bear 25 percent of the land acquisition costs toward national highway development. The State government has a major role to play in highway expansions. It is the State government that coordinates activities of materials handling, geology, forest and power departments. A review meeting is conducted every month. Some pf these are chaired by the Chief Minister himself. Surendran is blinded to all this, the minister said.
Recently a national news media had compared Karnataka with Kerala in context of national highway development. It said, while Karnataka moves at snail’s pace, Kerala’s leap is exemplary. This is owing to interventions made by the State govt, said Riyas. Things are handled competently here for the benefit of all people including Surendran. However, what Surendran attempts is to throw up lies and sabotage these efforts, the minister said.
