KEVADIA: PM Narendra Modi said Monday that he was torn between the call of his “grief-laden heart” that wouldn’t leave the side of those touched by tragedy in Morbi the previous evening and the “path of karma and kartavya” that led him to Kevadia in Narmada district for a scheduled Rashtriya Ekta Diwas event.
“I am in Ekta Nagar but my mind is filled with thoughts of those battling the pain of loss in Morbi. Rarely have I felt such numbing grief,” Modi told the gathering near the Statue of Unity, coinciding with the death toll in the suspension footbridge collapse rising to 134. The PM is scheduled to travel to Morbi, around 65km from Rajkot, on Tuesday before flying out of Gujarat. The chief minister's office tweeted an official confirmation of the visit.
