: ‘Metro man’ E Sreedharan quits active politics, says he was never a politician #IndiaNEWS Engineer Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, popularly known as “metro man�, on Thursday announced that he was

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‘Metro man’ E Sreedharan quits active politics, says he was never a politician #IndiaNEWS
Engineer Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, popularly known as “metro man�, on Thursday announced that he was leaving active politics, reported the Hindustan Times. Sreedharan had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Kerala Assembly polls held in April. He had told reporters that there will be a “landslide switch over� to the BJP in Kerala if he was projected as the chief ministerial candidate. However, Sreedharan had lost to Congress leader Shafi Parambil in the Palakkad constituency by a margin of 3,859 votes.Ahead of the polls the former Delhi Metro chief, who has also been involved with metro projects in multiple other cities in the country, had claimed that the BJP was being “painted like a communal party�. Sreedharan had also said that he would oppose the consumption of beef being “a strict vegetarian�, and asserted that incidents of “love jihad� indeed take place in Kerala.On Thursday, the he said the polls have made him wiser. Sreedharan said that he was sad when he lost in the elections, but has realised that nothing could have been done if he had won and become an MLA, reported India Today . “I was never a politician,� Sreedharan told reporters in Ponnani, his native town in Malappuram district. “I remained a bureaucratic politician for some time.� Sreedharan said he...Read more

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