India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Thiruvananthapuram, February 18Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, popularly known as the ‘Metro Man’, is ready to take a political step. Sreedharan will officially join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, ahead of the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly elections. He will join the saffron festival during his Vijay Yatra. The yatra will be led by Kerala BJP chief K Surendran.
Kerala is among the five states where the Assembly elections will be held later this year.
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He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan in 2008, the Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2005 by the French government and was named one of the Heroes of Asia by TIME magazine in 2003 .
Sreedharan was appointed by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the United Nations High Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport (HLAG-ST) for a period of three years in 2015. He is also a member of the Mata Shrine Vaishno Devi Board.
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