Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai addressing the general public after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway and different developmental initiatives throughout a public rally, in Mandya district on Sunday, March 12.
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Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday, March 12, attributed the conception and completion of the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway to the imaginative and prescient of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and took potshots on the Congress for claiming credit for it.
He was talking at Mandya on Sunday the place Mr. Modi inaugurated the expressway project and devoted it to the nation.
In his speech, Mr. Bommai mentioned that although there was speak of freeway growth between the 2 cities because the Nineties, it by no means took off however the current project gathered tempo solely after Mr. Modi grew to become the Prime Minister in 2014.
His remarks got here within the backdrop of each the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) claiming credit for the expressway project on the grounds that they ready the groundwork for it. Congress had additionally launched paperwork to again its claims that the works have been authorised when Mr. Siddaramaiah was the Chief Minister of the State and H.C. Mahadevappa was the PWD minister.
But, Mr. Bommai mentioned the preparation of the DPR, land acquisition, switch of state freeway to NH, launch of extra funds came about after Mr. Modi grew to become the PM. ‘’The works commenced in 2019 when Mr. Modi was the Prime Minister and is now being inaugurated in 2023 by Mr. Modi himself because the PM,’’ mentioned Mr. Bommai.
Without naming any political celebration, Mr. Bommai mentioned that some individuals are claiming credit for the expressway project and it was being mentioned everywhere in the social media and the mainstream media. But individuals of the area know as to who was on the helm of affairs when the work was taken up and accomplished, he added.
The expressway which has been accomplished at a value of ₹8,480 crore is not going to solely cut back the journey time between Bengaluru and Mysuru from 3 hours to about 75 minutes, however is reckoned to be a significant financial booster to Mysuru and Mandya area.
