Bengaluru, Aug. 10 -- BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Sunday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the Yellow line metro inauguration and flagged "infrastructure deficit" in Bengaluru..

Noting the significance of the metro project, he called it a "festive day".

He told ANI, "Today is a very important day for Bengaluru and Bengaluru South in particular. It's a festive day. You are seeing thousands of people gathered here to welcome the Prime Minister. Bengaluru is suffering greatly from an infrastructure deficit. And this results in countless hours of traffic jams, troubling the people of Bengaluru."

The BJP MP added that the Yellow line metro will serve eight lakh people per day once it is fully operational, while the Phase-3 metro will...