Trinamool: PM’s visit to Morbi cost Rs 30 cr against compensation of Rs 5 cr to victims
Saket Gokhale tweeted that an RTI response had revealed that Modi’s visit to Morbi for a few hours cost Rs.30 crore.
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Morbi in Gujarat on October 30, after the bridge tragedy, is said to have incurred a bill of over Rs.30 crore. And this, according Trinamool Congress national spokesperson Saket Gokhale, was against the ex gratia given to the kin of the 135 victims, which was just about Rs.5 crore.
Sharing images of news clippings published in Gujarati media, Saket Gokhale tweeted that an RTI response had revealed that Modi’s visit to Morbi for a few hours cost Rs.30 crore.
”Of this, Rs.5.5 crore was purely for welcome, event management and photography. The 135 victims, who died got Rs.4 lakh ex-gratia each i.e. Rs.5 crore. Just Modi’s event management & PR costs more than life of 135 people,” he tweeted.
However, the Centre’s Press Information Bureau’s fact-checking wing, which tweets from the handle @PIBFactCheck, countered the charge and stated that the claim was fake, adding that there was no such RTI response.
“Quoting an RTI, It is being claimed in a tweet that PM’s visit to Morbi cost Rs.30 crore. This claim is #Fake. No such RTI response has been given,” the PIB’s fact-checking wing tweeted.
