Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, State secretary of the CPI(M), inaugurated a dharna and signature campaign organised by the Samyukta Trade Union Jilla Samithi on Thursday to protest against alleged attempts to lease out the Ernakulam Junction railway station and the land near it to the private sector.
The samithu has also objected to leasing out of the Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode railway stations to the private sector for upkeep. With commercial complexes coming up on railway land, this step would lead to unavailability of land for rail development work, the samithi said.
