Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 27 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday wrote to Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, requesting him to personally look into the "inexplicable omission of Thiruvananthapuram from the Ministry of Railways list of 48 cities slated for infrastructure upgrades & capacity doubling under Vision 2030", demanding immediate rectification.

" To exclude a State Capital and a Divisional HQ from such a critical initiative is a baffling administrative oversight. Given the operational load on TVC and the need to develop Nemom & Kochuveli, this anomaly requires immediate rectification," Tharoor posted on X.

In his letter addressed to Vaishnaw, Tharoor said that Thiruvananthapuram, which is Kerala's capital, manages the very...