Jaipur--As Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje flagged off the inaugural run of Jaipur Metro on Wednesday morning, the event became much of a political slugfest between the former Congress government and the ruling BJP. While an ecstatic crowd of BJP workers thronged the Mansarovar metro station and propped up lifesize posters of Raje along metro stations thanking her for the ‘gift’, Congress workers distributed sweets outside metro stations hailing former CM Ashok Gehlot’s ‘far-sightedness’.
Right at the beginning of her second tenure, Raje had expressed her disapproval on the metro project and called it a loss-making venture. Jaipur Metro that has been Gehlot’s pet project and was implemented in 2010 has been repeatedly run down by the Raje government.
INDIAN EXPRESS
