Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa inaugurated the 'Veer Savarkar' flyover in Bengaluru on Tuesday. DCM Ashwath Narayan, Ministers Byrathi Basavaraj, CT Ravi, and Local MLAs participated in the program.
The inauguration of the 400-metre long flyover built on Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road in Yelahanka in the city was held three months after it was postponed in May. The flyover has been named after Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
A decision to name a flyover hereafter the freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar by the BJP-ruled city civic body and inaugurate it was put on hold amid opposition to the move by Congress and JDS.
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Chief Minister Yediyurappa was supposed to inaugurate the flyover before, which was built at a cost of Rs 34 crore, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Savarkar, but the decision was deferred.
After the fail of the first attempt, BJP Government planned to inaugurate it for the second time but due to the death of Former President Pranab Mukherjee, it was again postponed, but by the third attempt it was finally inaugurated on Tuesday.
The regional party called the BJP's decision to name the flyover after Savarkar as 'anti-state'.
The Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka have opposed the move to name a flyover after the freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar and termed it as an insult to freedom fighters of the state.
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