As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate a part of the Pune Metro on Sunday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the PM was welcome in Pune, but inaugurating the “half-completed project” at a time when Indian students have to be evacuated from Ukraine had to be taken more “seriously”.
“I agree that several important projects are being implemented in Pune but it’s equally important to evacuate Indian students from Ukraine. Will those who control the country take this seriously instead of inaugurating half-completed projects?” Mr. Pawar said. He added that the Centre was working on bringing students back from Ukraine and this was not the time to question who did what.
Mr. Modi will be inaugurating a 12 km stretch of the Pune Metro, out of a total of 32.2 km in the first phase of the project.
