Ex-minister: Bjp In A Hurry To Open Incomplete Expressway | Mysuru News – Times of India

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MYSURU: Congress leaders led by former public works minister HC Mahadevappa on Friday inspected the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway project at Siddalingapura, which is located on the outskirts of Mysuru, and said that the BJP is hurrying to inaugurate the project though it is yet to be completed.
According to Mahadevappa, of the 118 km expressway, 22 kms is yet to be completed. He asserted that it was the Siddaramaiah government which focused on upgrading the state highway connecting the two major cities to the national highway.
“In 2014, I had taken up the proposal to upgrade the state highway to national highway as the PWD minister as the vehicular density on the stretch had multiplied affecting the travel time. Initially, I took it up with the Manmohan Singh government, a proposal to upgrade 4,480 kms of the state highway into a national highway in the state,” Mahadevappa said.
“Oscar Fernandes from Karnataka was serving as the Union road transport minister then. A gazette notification to upgrade the Bengaluru-Mysuru state highway was issued on March 4, 2014. (Then) Mysuru Lok Sabha segment was represented by Congressman AH Vishwanath and not BJP’s Pratap Simha,” he told reporters during the inspection. He said the project needed another eight months to be completed.
PWD minister CC Patil said on the floor of the House on September 15, 2021 that the proposal was submitted during the Siddaramaiah government, the Congress leader said, questioning Simha’s assertion that Congress did nothing for the project.
Mahadevappa asked Simha to not use unparliamentary words while targeting the political opponents. He also make a reference to Simha calling leaders who are questioning him as jackals.
Biker chants slogans
During the inspection of the expressway project by the leaders, a biker, who was headed to Srirangapatna, stopped the vehicle and said ‘Jai Sri Ram’. He hailed PM Modi and left the spot when Congress workers tried to question him.

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