PM Modi
Kolkata/Agra: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the country’s first underwater metro in West Bengal and Agra Metro in UP on Wednesday. PM Modi is scheduled to address a rally in Barsat in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday. Before that, he will inaugurate the country’s first underwater metro section between Howrah Maidan and Kolkata’s Esplanade. PM Modi arrived in Kolkata on Tuesday evening and is staying at the Raj Bhavan. On Wednesday morning, he will inaugurate the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade section of the Kolkata Metro’s East-West Metro Corridor.
First transport tunnel built under a river
The Howrah Maidan-Esplanade metro section has the first transport tunnel under any river in India. It flows under the river Hooghly whose eastern and western banks meet the cities of Kolkata and Howrah respectively. He added that Howrah metro station is also the deepest metro station in India. The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Kavi Subhash-Hemant Mukhopadhyay and Taratla-Majarhat metro sections. Along with this, he will also inaugurate other projects. This includes UP’s Agra Metro.
In the afternoon he will go to Barasat to address a public meeting. State BJP spokesperson Sumak Bhattacharya said Sandesh Khullar’s “harassed women” would be present at the rally venue. Protests erupted in Sandishakhli over the alleged sexual exploitation of women by Trinamool Congress leaders. “It is not yet known whether the victims of Sandishakhli will meet the Prime Minister or not,” he said. Last week, BJP state president Sakant Majumdar had said that the party would facilitate the meeting if “abused women” wished to meet the prime minister. The Prime Minister’s rally will be held two days before International Women’s Day.
PM Modi addressed two rallies in West Bengal last week, one at Arambagh in Hooghly district and the other at Krishnanagar in Nadia district. He had come down hard on the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government over “atrocities on women” in Sandishakhli. He had said that the whole country is angry over this issue and demanded the people to ensure the defeat of his party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Inauguration of Agra Metro
PM Modi will inaugurate the Agra Metro through digital medium on Wednesday while Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will attend the program and flag off the train. Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) has completed preparations for this. UPMRC Deputy General Manager (Public Relations) Panchanan Mishra said that the Prime Minister will inaugurate the Agra Metro through digital medium from Kolkata.
He said that a program will be organized at the Taj Mahal underground station in Agra, in which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the train. The train will run from Taj East Gate to Mankameswar Metro Station. Its distance is six kilometers and there will be six stations from departure to destination. The program will be held at 10 am, in which public representatives, social, political persons and school children will participate. People will be able to travel in metro trains with tickets from March 7. The train travel time is fixed from 6 am to 10 pm. (input language)
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