New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat's Morbi town where 134 were killed after a cable bridge collapsed, on Tuesday (November 1), ANI reported quoting the state chief minister's office. The recently renovated and reopened bridge over the Machchhu river in Morbi town was not in use for nearly eight months collapsed at around 6.30 pm on October 30, killing several people as they fell into the river.
Modi, who is in Kevadia said that rescue operations were underway and there would be no laxity in rescue and relief efforts. "The Gujarat Government has been carrying out relief and rescue operations since yesterday. Centre too is extending all help to the State Government," he said.
"The State Government has constituted a committee to investigate this incident. I assure the people of the country that there will be no laxity in rescue and relief operations. I express my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the accident. In this hour of grief, the government is with the bereaved families in every manner. The Gujarat Government has been carrying out relief and rescue operations since yesterday. Centre too is extending all help to the State Government," Modi said.
"I am in Ekta Nagar but my mind is with the victims of Morbi. Rarely in my life, would I have experienced such pain. On one hand, there is a pain-riddled heart and on the other hand, there is the path to duty," the PM said in his address celebrating the 147th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Ekta Nagar in Kevadia.
Modi said that the Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel had reached Morbi last night and has been holding the command of search and rescue ops since yesterday. "The State Government has constituted a committee to investigate this incident. I assure the people of the country that there will be no laxity in rescue and relief operations," he said. The prime minister is on a three-day tour to Gujarat and Rajasthan. He cancelled his roadshow to be held in Ahmedabad on Monday.
