KOLLAM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Kerala on January 15 to inaugurate the Kollam bypass. The party has obtained the official confirmation on it, said BJP state chief P S Sreedharan Pillai. After a long wait of four and a half decades, the Kollam bypass is becoming a reality.

However, the left MLAs are of the stand that Prime Minister coming without the invitation of the state government is not right. The government has not obtained any official confirmation on his arrival, said Kollam mayor V Rajendra Babu, MLAs M Noushad, Mukesh and N Vijayan Pillai.

The UDF’s allegation is that the state government is delaying the inauguration of the road citing petty reasons eyeing Lok Sabha polls. The BJP had strongly levelled the allegation that the LDF is trying to consider the construction of the bypass as their achievement. It was built with equal participation of both the union and state governments.