Kodagu-Mysore MP Pratap Simha said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would inaugurate the Bengaluru-Mysuru Express Highway on March 12.
Simha, who clarified that the toll collection on the Expressway had only been postponed, said that the toll fee would be collected from Bengaluru to Nidagatta from March 14.
He was speaking to media persons after receiving senior BJP leaders, including party national president J P Nadda and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, at Mysuru Airport on Wednesday.
The leaders headed for the launch of BJP’s ‘Vijaya Sankalpa Yatre’ at Male Mahadeshwara Hills in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district.