PM Modi's Hyderabad Visit To Launch Developmental Projects Postponed

Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay said that the revised schedule of PM Modi's visit to Hyderabad will be announced soon.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Hyderabad on January 19 has been postponed. He was scheduled to visit Hyderabad to take part in the launch of several developmental projects worth Rs 2,400 crore at the Secunderabad Railway Station. He was also scheduled to flag off the Vande Bharat Express train connecting Secunderabad to Visakhapatnam via Vijayawada.

The Union Minister for Culture, Tourism, and Northeast Development, G. Kishan Reddy, announced the postponement of PM Modi's visit after receiving the information from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Wednesday. 

Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay said that the revised schedule of PM Modi's visit will be announced soon.

PM Modi was scheduled to dedicate the 85-km-long, double-track Secunderabad–Mahabubnagar Railway to the nation. The project will cost Rs. 1,410 crores.

At the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, the Prime Minister was also supposed to dedicate construction projects worth Rs 2,597 crore. He was also supposed to lay the foundation stone for several projects, including the Rs. 699 crore modernisation and enhancement of Secunderabad Railway Station and the Rs. 521 crore railway periodic overhauling workshop at Kazipet.

He was also scheduled to launch work on widening and strengthening to 2/4 lane 60 km of the Mahabubnagar-Chincholi section of National Highway 167N. The work is to be taken up at an estimated cost of Rs 704 crore.

PM Modi last visited Hyderabad on November 12, on a stopover during a visit to Ramagundam to dedicate the people of Telangana to the public sector Ramagundam Fertilizer Factory Limited.

The PM's visit is expected to give a further boost to the BJP cadres preparing for the upcoming assembly elections later this year.