Kolkata, September 25: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday unveiled an "incomplete" bridge which was to be inaugurated on September 30 by Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. The four-lane road overbridge is being constructed in West Bengal's Burdwan district. The construction is yet to be completed and the TMC unveiled the incomplete structure. The TMC's move left the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fuming. BJP, TMC Workers Clash Near Hospital in Kalyani.

Piyush Goyal was to inaugurate the overbridge on September 30. However, days before the official inauguration, a group of TMC workers reached the site where state panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee cut a blue ribbon to inaugurate the bridge. Mukherjee said that the TMC inaugurated the bridge because the project was the brainchild of Mamata Banerjee when she was the Union Railway Minister. BJP Slams Mamata for Her Moon Mission Remark, TMC Counters.

"I don’t see anything wrong in this as the state government also contributed 50 per cent towards the total project cost," he told News18, adding that he was unaware about the official inauguration ceremony by Goyal on September 30. Irked at TMC's move, BJP West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh said that the ruling party was jealous of the Modi government which completed the project pending for years.

Dilip Ghosh's Tweet:

"It is actually quite ridiculous when state minister Subrata Mukherjee goes ahead and inaugurates the incomplete hanging railway bridge of Bardhaman just before the @RailMinIndia was scheduled to do so. Didi should resist the temptation of getting into this thoughtless rat race of ribbon cutting and focus on competing in terms of completed development projects. This only can put Paschim Banga on the true trajectory of progress and development," Ghosh tweeted.

Calling TMC's move "unfortunate", MoS Railways Suresh Angadi: "We live in a federal structure. The Bengal government should not have done this. We had invited them too. Piyush Goyal is in the US and I have been asked to go to inaugurate the bridge on the 27th. For the interest of the people of Bengal, I request the Mamata government to not play politics on such issues of development."

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