Bengaluru residents are inviting PM Narendra Modi to their streets and areas, as a joke, after BBMP fixed one of Bengaluru's perennially bad roads because the Prime Minister is visiting the area. The city municipality started asphalting the road leading up to Bengaluru University near Nagarabhavi which the PM would take to inaugurate the Dr Ambedkar School of Economics at the University on December 6. Identifying the civic body's priorities, several residents took to Twitter to therefore ask the PM to visit their areas as well.
Bengaluru has chronically suffered from bad roads; the condition of the said road that BBMP is now fixing, has been pointed out several times by Bengalureans. However, till now no proper action had been taken. Several roads including many arterial ones still remain dilapidated, making it difficult and dangerous to drive on them.
One Twitter user named Deepak Krishnappa said, “@narendramodi Hon'ble Prime Minister, Bangalore roads are in a very pathetic situation. Your scheduled travel by road has got new look to Bangalore University (pls see news paper clipping). Request you to travel by road to few more areas so that city gets good roads.” (sic)
Another user, iamvijy tweeted saying, “Modi ji,Just cos u r visiting #Bengaluru on Dec 6 a new black top road was made. U are lucky to travel on a newly laid road just for u & residents got lucky because u r coming. Can u travel all across even to Whitefield so all roads will be laid for u & we residents benefit.” (sic)
@narendramodi Hon'ble Prime Minister, Bangalore roads are in a very pathetic situation. Your scheduled travel by road has got new look to Bangalore University (pls see news paper clipping).Request you to travel by road to few more areas so that city gets good roads.@PMOIndia pic.twitter.com/4BabqdKO8H
— Deepak Krishnappa (@dpak_krish) December 1, 2021
Modi ji,Just cos u r visiting #Bengaluru on Dec 6 a new black top road was made. U are lucky to travel on a newly laid road just for u & residents got lucky because u r coming. Can u travel all across even to Whitefield so all roads will be laid for u & we residents benefit. pic.twitter.com/WD4JPC5Agp
— iamvigy (@iamvigy) December 1, 2021
Can we ask @PMOIndia to use most of roads of Bengaluru for his travel? Atleast like that we may get better roads here. #ModijiGiveUsBetterBengaluruRoads pic.twitter.com/kQsR78LopS
— Tinu Cherian Abraham (@tinucherian) December 1, 2021
Whichever the road he is travelling already getting asphalted @PMOIndia @narendramodi pl drive on different roads of bengaluru during yr visit. Yr party govt trying to fool you by asphalting only the routes you are travelling. We do not even have roads to walk forget about drive https://t.co/efqSK1ugeE
— Vajapeyam Srivatsa (@VajapeyamSriva1) December 1, 2021
And the drama continues
— Meena (@meenabg) November 30, 2021
Why BBMP is not taking care of Bengaluru roads? @BBMPCOMM
Why on earth @blrcitytraffic should road repair work instead of managing traffic?@narendramodi when you come to Bengaluru please travel on different roads to know the pathetic condition of roads https://t.co/B38tY2roMw
One more Twitter user pointed out the issue of roads getting dug up for works such as laying of cables and water pipelines after the road work is done. “We'll get better roads for a day. After Modi leaves, #BBMP will be back with JCB's for digging the next day. Show me one road in Bengaluru which stayed without being dug up for more than 24 hours? I'll rest my case then. @BBMPCOMM,” Amarnath BM tweeted.
We'll get better roads for a day. After Modi leaves, #BBMP will be back with JCB's for digging the next day.
— Amarnath ಬಿಎಂ (@amarnath1696) December 1, 2021
Show me one road in Bengaluru which stayed without being dug up for more than 24 hours? I'll rest my case then.@BBMPCOMM https://t.co/CmxmUZDYI7
Several Bengaluru roads are pothole ridden, causing several accidents and even deaths including recently when a food delivery executive died in an accident near Bengaluru’s Thanisandra. The food delivery executive hit a pothole and fell off his scooter. A truck ran over his right hand and leg causing severe injuries. He later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in November had spoken to reporters and said that 2,203 km of roads had been damaged in Karnataka due to rains, out of which it was reported that an estimated damage of Rs 98 crore to major roads and Rs 600 crore to ward roads had been caused in Bengaluru according to BBMP. Just days earlier he had told reporters that the repair work will be taken up on a war footing.