Bangalore, March.18: Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi six days ago got flooded owing to heavy rainfall in the Ramanagara region of Karnataka on Friday. Angry commuters took to micro-blogging site Twitter to express their angst. ‘Masterstroke.’ wrote one Twitter user @shaandelhite, posting a video of what he claimed was the Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway.
The Highway was built with the aim to decongest the traffic from Bengaluru to Mysuru, thereby reducing the travel time from three hours to seventy five minutes.
However, the same highway got inundated, six days after b
eing inaugurated owing to heavy rainfall. According to reports, traffic was slower on Saturday owing to bumper-to-bumper accidents, as water stayed stagnant in the under-ridge on the highway. Notably, this is the same underbridge that flooded last year when Karnataka received unprecedented rains.
Angry netizens took to Twitter to say that the ruling party in that state- Bharatiya Janata Party was ignorant and should have only opened the highway after thoroughly checking.
“Newly inaugurated Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway by Narendra Modi. It’s condition after 6 days of inauguration. Masterstroke.” wrote Shantanu on Twitter.
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Telangana State Renewable Energy Development Corporation, YSR also tweeted a video of the flooded highway. He wrote, “Have a look at the newly opened Bengaluru – Mysuru expressway which couldn’t withstand moderate rain, Never hurry & rush to open incomplete expressways for elections”.
On his visit to poll bound Karnataka, six days ago, PM Modi had inaugurated several projects int he states, including the Bangalore-Mysore Highway. The 119 km Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway project on NH-275 is a 6-10 lane access-controlled highway developed at a cost of ₹8,480 crore by the ministry of road transport and highway.
