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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Wednesday (November 19, 2025) accused the BJP authorities astatine the Centre of denying Metro Rail projects for Madurai and Coimbatore connected flimsy grounds.
In a station connected X, helium said, “The Union BJP authorities has denied Metro Rail for ‘Temple City’ Madurai and for ‘South India’s Manchester’, Coimbatore, connected flimsy grounds. A authorities exists to service radical without bias. Yet the Union BJP treats Tamil Nadu’s antiauthoritarian prime arsenic a crushed to instrumentality revenge.”
Mr. Stalin said pushing specified a governmental custom, successful which BJP-ruled States get Metros for smaller Tier II cities portion opposition-ruled States are deprived, is simply a disgraceful approach. “Tamil Nadu, the onshore of Self-Respect, volition ne'er judge specified a distortion of national principles,” helium added.
“They [Centre] attempted to stall the Chennai Metro, and we overcame those malicious attempts and kept the task progressing. With the aforesaid determination, we volition unafraid the Metro Rail that Madurai and Coimbatore request for their aboriginal growth,” helium added.
The Union authorities earlier rejected the Metro Rail task proposals for Coimbatore and Madurai, arguing that the 2 cities deficiency the mandated 2-million colonisation according to the 2011 census.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said the colonisation of Coimbatore metropolis is 15.84 lakh and that of Madurai is 15 lakh according to the 2011 census. The Metro Rail Policy, 2017, states that the colonisation of a metropolis should beryllium 2 cardinal oregon much to program a Metro Rail project.
