Congress already naked & busy in defaming India: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday flagged off the Meerut Metro and Namo Bharat train from the Shatabdi Nagar station in Meerut, giving a fillip to high-speed intercity travel and swift intra-city movement. From there, the prime minister also undertook a metro ride till Meerut South station. While addressing the gathering, Prime Minister highlighted progress in the expansion of the metro network in the country. “Before 2014, metro expansion in India was very slow. During the Congress government, metros operated in only five cities. Under the BJP government, metros are now running in over 25 cities,” PM Modi said, adding that India had also built the third-largest metro network in the world. Modi hit out at Congress, accusing it of using a global event for its "dirty and naked politics" after its youth wing leaders staged a shirtless protest during the recent India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.  PM Modi said, "You are already naked, then why did you feel the need to take off your clothes?" "What the Congress leaders did there shows how ideologically bankrupt and impoverished the oldest party of the country has become. Congress is busy defaming its own country. The Prime Minister asserted that the Congress should have remembered the AI Summit was "not a BJP event'.

#WATCH | Meerut, Uttar Pradesh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "... The Congress turned a global event for India into a platform for its dirty and naked politics. Congress leaders reached the venue naked in front of the foreign guests. I ask the Congress people, the country… https://t.co/fa5yKag8oq pic.twitter.com/81zAr1Qsar

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With a design speed of 180 km per hour, Namo Bharat is India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System. It connects major urban centres such as Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Modinagar and Meerut with Delhi at a faster pace. Sarai Kale Khan, the originating station of the corridor, is one of the four Namo Bharat stations commissioned with this inauguration. Meerut Metro services between Meerut South and Modipuram, operating on the same infrastructure as Namo Bharat, is a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country. Meerut Metro is India’s fastest metro system with maximum operational speed of around 120 kilometers per hour. It covers the entire stretch in just 30 minutes, with all the scheduled stoppages enroute. This seamless integration of Namo Bharat and Meerut Metro on the same infrastructure ensures high-speed intercity travel and swift intra-city movement, setting a benchmark for integrated urban and regional transit in India.
The fare for the full journey has been fixed at around ₹213, calculated at ₹2.60 per kilometre. The event also marked the beginning of metro rail services in Meerut for the first time, which is a major step in modernizing the city’s urban transport system.