NDA will bring Metro Rail to Coimbatore when it comes to power in T.N. next year, says Vanathi

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Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan.

Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan. | Photo Credit: M. PERIASAMY

Vanathi Srinivasan, Coimbatore South MLA, said connected Thursday that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), comprising AIADMK, BJP, and different parties, would instrumentality the Metro Rail task for Coimbatore erstwhile it comes to powerfulness successful Tamil Nadu adjacent year.

Ms. Srinivasan, who is besides the BJP Mahila Morcha president, told journalists successful Coimbatore that the ruling DMK and its allies were trying to make an content that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was against Tamil Nadu and the Centre rejected the Metro Rail projects for Coimbatore and Madurai with a motive. This was “false propaganda”, she alleged.

Claiming the State authorities submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Coimbatore Metro without applying its caput connected 4 main points, including the colonisation and close of way, she alleged an unviable DPR was submitted to make a mendacious sentiment connected the Centre. “If the existent alignment should beryllium implemented, onshore acquisition volition beryllium precocious successful areas specified arsenic Big Bazaar Street and NH roadworthy successful Coimbatore, starring to respective radical losing their livelihood,” she said.

“The DMK authorities wants to make a concern wherever achromatic emblem tin beryllium shown to the Prime Minister erstwhile helium visits the State and specified a DPR is simply a revenge connected the radical of Coimbatore arsenic each the 10 Assembly seats present are with the AIADMK and its allies,” she alleged.

According to Ms. Srinivasan, the Metro Rail task was approved for Agra arsenic it has precocious tourer population, for Bhopal arsenic it is simply a State superior and for Patna owed to the State authorities including the colonisation of adjacent municipalities. The Tamil Nadu authorities should person done its homework earlier submitting the DPR, she contended.

The DMK is enacting a play to instrumentality revenge connected the radical of Coimbatore. “Our committedness to the radical of Coimbatore is erstwhile the DMK authorities is sent location and the NDA forms the adjacent authorities and (AIADMK wide secretary) Edappadi K. Palaniswami becomes the Chief Minister, we volition taxable a revised DPR and instrumentality the Metro Rail task successful Coimbatore,” the MLA added.

Published - November 20, 2025 07:55 p.m. IST

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