Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday accused the Union government of rejecting the proposals to build metro rail networks in Coimbatore and Madurai on “ flimsy grounds ”.

On November 14, the Union Ministry of Housing Affairs returned the project proposals , stating that the population of the two cities, according to the 2011 Census, does not meet the criteria to build a metro network, reported The Hindu .

While Madurai has a population of 15 lakh, Coimbatore is home to 15.8 lakh residents, according to the last Census. The Metro Rail Policy, 2017, states that the population of a city needs to be 20 lakh or more to build a metro rail system.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Stalin said that the Union government “exists to serve people without bias”.

“Yet the Union

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