Report by Tanya Singh:
Former Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan on Thursday said he will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Assembly polls in Kerala. Sources in BJP also confirmed that the ‘Metro man’ will formally join the party during BJP’s Vijay Yathra, which is scheduled to start from February 21. The Vijay Yathra will be led by Kerala BJP President K Surendran.
The 88-year-old is more likely to contest the Kerala election, due by Could. Standard as India’s “metro man”, Mr. Sreedharan retired as chief of the Delhi Metro in 2011. The Kerala-based engineer acquired the sobriquet of ‘Metro man’ after he oversaw the implementation of urban infrastructure projects of metro rail.
Sreedharan will officially join the party during the Vijaya Yathra, a rath yatra scheduled in Kerala ahead of the state assembly elections. The rath yatra is set to launch on February 21 from Kasaragod and ends in Thiruvananthapuram in March’s first week.Kerala is scheduled to go to elections in April.
