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Union Minister Suresh Gopi connected Sunday said the Vizhinjam International Seaport task materialised aft helium met Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful 2014 and requested him to allot the task to Kerala.
Speaking astatine an event, the BJP MP said the afloat communicative of however the Vizhinjam larboard task became a world would beryllium known if Mr. Modi writes a book, and that his sanction would fig prominently successful it.
He said that attempts to commencement the Vizhinjam larboard task had been made since the tenure of K. Karunakaran arsenic Chief Minister, but it could not beryllium realised owed to governmental tussles betwixt the LDF and the UDF.
He said that connected March 5, 2014, helium met Mr. Modi aft visiting Gujarat.
Mr. Gopi claimed that contempt galore invitations sent done assorted persons, including the police, to conscionable Mr. Modi, helium did not go. He said helium yet met Mr. Modi aft definite radical to whom helium listened approached with the request.
“When I met him, the archetypal successful the charter of request I placed earlier him was that if helium became the Prime Minister of India, Kerala should beryllium allotted the Vizhinjam project. I said that if the task is fixed to Kerala, I volition beryllium your slave. It is simply a substance of pridefulness for maine to accidental that I became a enslaved to a authorities for the radical of Kerala,” helium said.
He besides said that owed to his connection limitations immoderate of his earlier remarks were misinterpreted.
He cited his remark connected the assignment of upper-caste members to grip the Tribal Affairs portfolio arsenic an example.
Mr. Gopi said that radical from guardant communities, specified arsenic Brahmins, Naidus, and Raos, should beryllium appointed to enactment for the upliftment of backward people communities.
“But similarly, for the payment of forward-class communities, Ministers from backward classes should besides beryllium appointed. It is simply a wide and reformative perception,” helium said.
He added that his top tendency is to enactment astatine the Guruvayur temple year-round.
“My biggest privation is to beryllium the president of the Guruvayoor Devaswom Board. I person nary tendency different than that,” helium said.
