UPA government didn’t approve Taranga-Abu Road rail line when I was Gujarat CM: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said though the Taranga-Ambaji-Abu Road railway line was conceived nearly 100 years ago during British rule and the project was important, the then-Congress-led UPA government did not give approval for it despite the Gujarat government under his chief ministership submitting a proposal for the same.

The prime minister made the comments at a public rally in Ambaji town of Gujarat’s Banaskantha district after laying foundation stone for the same railway project. “Britishers had taken the decision to lay a railway line connecting Taranga Hill, Ambaji and Abu Road in 1930, nearly 100 years ago.