Bathinda, Oct. 12 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday inaugurated a 1.1-km railway over bridge (RoB) at Rampura Phul, Bathinda, built at a cost of Rs.56 crore.

Addressing a gathering after the inaugural event, the CM said the RoB was a long-pending demand of the residents for smooth connectivity in the town, but the respective state governments took no action in this direction.

Mann said the assembly constituency of Rampura Phul had been represented by political stalwarts like Sikander Singh Maluka of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Gurpreet Singh Kangar of the Congress for almost two decades. They remained ministers as well, but ignored the issue of building a bridge.

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