Narendra Modi in Baghpat updates: Country's development is a joke for Congress, says PM

Narendra Modi during his roadshow on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway. Tiwtter@BJP4live[/caption]The Delhi-Meerut Expressway has been built at a cost of Rs 841 crore has vertical gardens with solar power on the Yamuna Bridge on this expressway.Modi's roadshow commenced from the Nizamuddin Bridge, the start of the about 9-kilometre-long first leg of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, and after a 6-kilometre roadshow on the expressway, the prime minister will fly to Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh to dedicate another infrastructure project, the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), to the nation."The prime minister would inaugurate the exhibition and 3D model there and would fly to Baghpat to dedicate to the nation the EPE," Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.The 135-kilometre EPE, built at a cost of Rs 11,000 crore, has several unique features and is India's first highway to be lit by solar power besides provisions of rainwater harvesting on every 500 metres on both sides and would showcase 36 national monuments and 40 fountains. It has been completed in record time of 500 days.