Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch Atal Bridge today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the iconic ‘Atal Bridge’ on the Sabarmati river in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city on Saturday.
PM Modi will embark on his two-day visit to Gujarat on Saturday. On the first day of his visit, PM Modi will address a gathering at the ‘Khadi Utsav’ programme to be held on Sabarmati Riverfront in the evening, a state government release said.
“From the same venue, the prime minister will inaugurate the foot-over bridge, built by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation and named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee,” it said.
A day before the inauguration, PM Modi took to Twitter and shared pictures of the bridge. “Doesn’t the Atal Bridge look spectacular!” he wrote.
“An exemplary landmark of the Sabarmati Riverfront!” he said in another tweet while sharing a video of the bridge.