New Delhi: The Technocrat, fondly known as India’s ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan is going to join BJP next week and he is an aspirant of the Chief Ministerial candidate for Kerala in the forthcoming elections. The Metro Man Sreedharan on Friday said that his main aim is to help the party come to power in Kerala.

His entry into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is being seen as a major boost for the party in election-bound Kerala. The state is being ruled by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) alternately for the past many years.
He also said that the focus will be on developing infrastructure in a big way and bring the state out of the debt trap if the BJP wins the assembly polls that are likely to be held in April-May this year. He also made it clear that he will not be interested in governorship, saying that it is purely a “constitutional position and no powers at all” and that he won’t be able to make any positive contribution to the state in such a position.

He explained his plans in the state that “My main idea is to bring BJP to power in Kerala. If BJP comes to power in Kerala, there will be three to four major areas we want to focus. One is infrastructure development in a big way and another is to bring industry to the state”.

“The state is in a debt trap today, so much of borrowings. And debt burden on each Malayalee is ₹ 1.2 lakh today…. That means we are heading for bankruptcy and the government still continues to borrow. The state finances need to be propped up and for that, we need to find a solution,” he said. On what it means to enter the political fray, he said it only means that all his professional responsibilities are coming to an end by the end of this month.