Modi Govt will support Kerala`s development: Radhakrishnan

Thiruvananthapuram: The Narendra Modi government will extend due support to the development of Kerala although the state has no representation in the ministry, Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Pon Radhakrishnan on Saturday said.

Radhakrishnan, elected from Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu, said the issue of widening of the Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil highway had already been taken up with Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari. Radhkarishnan, while speaking to reporters at the airport here, said he would look into the delay in starting the work of the rail coach factory at Kanchikode in Palakkad.