The Metro Man of India, Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, now 92, is credited with changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in building the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro. He is also a Padma Shri and a Padma Vibhushan awardee.
Hailing from Kerala, the 90-year-old technocrat joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in February 2021 and contested for Kerala’s Palakkad assembly constituency but lost the election.
"The (CPI(M)-led) government was not keen on the development of the state. Its main focus was upliftment of the party," said the 88-year old technocrat, a day after his name was officially declared as the BJP's candidate for Palakkad Assembly constituency.
E Sreedharan who was planning to step down as advisor to the UP government was instead given additional three projects
Winston Churchill said, never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. These words apply today to a conflict of a different kind.