KOCHI: After attending the inauguration ceremonies, the Chief Minister had to wait for half an hour in Ernakulam on the railway station platform and in the train to return to Thiruvananthapuram. CM left for the capital in the New Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Express after attending the inauguration ceremony of the water metro boat jetties and the closing ceremony of the police cyber security conference.

The Chief Minister reached platform number two at Ernakulam North Station at 4.46 pm. The train had left Edappally Station by then. The Chief Minister sat on a chair near the small entrance of platform number two until the train arrived at 4.53 pm, three minutes late. CPM District Secretary S Satheesh was with him.

Although the Kerala Express has only a five-minute stop at the station,

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