While inaugurating the new trains that will boost connectivity to the Statue of Unity, PM Modi said it will will also help in “changing the lives of the tribal community of Kevadiya.

“This connectivity will be beneficial for tourists coming to see the Statue of Unity but it will also help in changing the lives of the tribal community of Kevadiya. It will bring new opportunities for job and self-employment,” PM Narendra Modi said.

You can now reach #StatueOfUnityByRail!

The programme to mark this special feat begins soon. Here are more glimpses from the Kevadia Railway Station. pic.twitter.com/0u7oyTFTF2

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 17, 2021

PM Narendra Modi also paid tributes to AIADMK founder and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M G Ramachandran on his birth anniversary and said one of the trains that flagged off for Kevadia on Sunday originates at Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central Railway Station.

“One of the trains flagged off for Kevadia today originates at Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central Railway Station. It is a pleasant coincidence that today is the birth anniversary of MGR. His life was dedicated to the service of the poor,” PM Modi said.

The Ahmedabad-Kevadia Jan Shatabdi Express, one of the eight trains, has been equipped with the ‘Vista-dome tourist coach’ which offers large viewing areas with rooftop glasses and seats for passengers.

PM Modi also inaugurated the DabhoiChandod converted broad gauge railway line, ChandodKevadia new broad gauge rail line, newly electrified PratapnagarKevadia section and the new station buildings of Dabhoi, Chandod and Kevadia.

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath joined the event via video link.

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“We were assured of a safe stay in Jaipur by Priyankaji, who spoke to my mother and wife and said that the UP government may slap other charges against me. We feel safe here in Rajasthan,” Dr Khan said during a press conference in Jaipur.

Dr Khan was released after the Allahabad high court set aside the charges pressed against him for a speech on Citizenship Amendment Act in Aligarh Muslim University in January this year. He was arrested on January 29.
The paediatrician from the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur said he would appeal to UP chief minister Yogi

Adityanath to revoke his suspension. “I shall write to UP CM urging him to revoke my suspension and give my service back so that I can work as a corona warrior. I want to volunteer in the vaccine research programme,” he said. Khan added that he will knock at the high court’s doors again if the suspension wasn’t revoked.

Recalling the death of 70 kids at the BRD Medical College due to shortage of liquid oxygen, Khan said it happened because the state government had faltered on payment and people in Luknow were demanding a cut to release payment of 78 lakh.

Dr Kafeel Khan was, in February, booked under the stringent National Security (NSA) over his alleged anti- CAA speech at Aligarh Muslim University on December 2019.

In 2017, he was arrested for his alleged role in the death of children in BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, UP. About two years later, a state government probe cleared Khan of all major charges, prompting him to seek an apology from the Yogi Adityanath government.

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