Political events compete to take credit score for Kolkata metro line enlargement

Political events in West Bengal are competing to take credit score for the Kolkata metro line enlargement as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 22, 2025) inaugurated three metro hyperlinks, which can enhance connectivity within the capital metropolis. 

Right earlier than the inauguration program, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee posted on her social media deal with on X and stated, “permit me to be somewhat nostalgic in the present day” and that she was lucky to plan and sanction a collection of metro traces within the Kolkata metropolitan space. “I had drawn the blueprints, organized the funds, initiated the works and ensured that the totally different ends of the town (Joka, Garia, Airport, Sector V, and so forth.) had been related by an intra- metropolis Metro grid,” Ms. Banerjee stated. 

The Chief Minister additional added that as the pinnacle of the State, she facilitated the execution of the metro traces — together with association of land, rehabilitation of individuals, paving roads, and coordinated between departments to develop the infrastructure. 

In a confrontation, Leader of Opposition and Bharatiya Janta Party MLA Suvendu Adhikari replied to Ms. Banerjee saying, “Your nostalgia is nothing however a determined try and steal credit score for initiatives that languished below your watch. As Railways Minister within the corrupt UPA period, you could have received some blueprints sketched, however they collected mud for years.” 

Mr. Adhikari additionally alleged that inefficiencies and non-cooperation of the TMC authorities had plagued the well timed execution of the metro initiatives in Kolkata. He known as the claims made by Ms. Banerjee ‘false’, and stated that “Bengal deserves Modi’s imaginative and prescient and motion.” 

Meanwhile, Communist Party of India (Marxist) listed their imaginative and prescient and achievement within the metro’s building in a social media submit.

“The ₹4,874.58 Cr East–West Kolkata Metro hall was a imaginative and prescient & achievement of the Left Front Govt. Foundation stone laid on 22 Feb 2009 by West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with Pranab Mukherjee, and others…,” the get together stated on X.