Congress Wonders Why Shinzo Abe Being Hosted In Gujarat & Not Delhi!

Training guns on Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the Sena said of the 508 km, 156 km and four stations will run through this state for which it would need to shell out at least Rs 30,000 crore, plus tackle the problems of rehabilitation of farmers and project-affected-persons. "When we raised the issue of complete waiver of farmers' loans, the CM had warned of 'anarchy' in the fund-starved state. Now, you (CM) are putting Rs 30,000-plus for the PM's rich dream," the Sena taunted. Though the BJP is touting the high-speed rail as Modi's dream, the Sena reminded it was also Modi's ambitious dream to bring back Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir into India, "after which the bullet train should run smoothly from New Delhi to PoK via Kashmir and Tibet", it challenged. "Now we hope and pray... the bullet train is not used to carry out a 'plunder' of Mumbai," the edit concluded.

The Sena also pointed out that Mumbai's overburdened and unsafe suburban rail network was suffering for lack of funds and improvement, many incomplete rail projects languish in the state. "However, bullet trains will now zip between Ahmedabad-Mumbai without anybody even asking for it." "Bullet Train is not India's ordinary masses' dream... It will cater only to the rich-and-wealthy classes for which Goyal has been specially chosen..., and to give something 'new' to the industrialists of Gujarat where elections are coming up shortly," the Sena pointed out.

Japanese Prime Minister Abe arrived here today on a two- day visit with a packed agenda that includes the laying of the foundation stone for India's first bullet train project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. Tewari also criticised the government over the handling of the Rohingyas issue and said the criticism India had been subjected to by the United Nations Human Rights Council was "absolutely unprecedented". "The stand which this government has taken on the Rohingyas is totally contrary to India's traditions where we have welcomed the persecuted from any part of our neighbourhood," he said. (Image: PIB)

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari on Wednesday said it was"quixotic" that Abe was not being hosted in Delhi. "We do not want to transgress propriety by commenting ona state visit but it is rather quixotic that the PrimeMinister of a country as important as Japan, who is almostIndia is strategic partner in many respects, is strangely noteven being hosted in Delhi," he said. He hoped a state visit was not being used for "politicalpurposes" in view of the elections in Gujarat, slated to beheld later this year.(Photo: File)

With an election in Gujarat around the corner, it does raise a question -- and I hope this is not the case -- that a state visit is actually being used for political purposes because the manner in which it is structured is rather awkward," he told reporters here. Tewari said India had a great relationship with Japan and that relationship, its foundations and consolidation had been laid during the UPA regime. (Photo: AP)