Bengaluru, July 16 -- BJP MP Tejasvi Surya has launched a scathing attack on the proposed Rs.18,500 crore Bengaluru Tunnel Road project, calling it "India's most expensive road per kilometre" and a "world-class corruption project" by the Congress-led state government.

Surya alleged the tunnel is a vanity scheme meant to benefit just 10 per cent of car-owning elites in posh areas like Sadashivnagar and Koramangala, while 90 per cent of Bengalureans continue to struggle with inadequate public transport. "This is perhaps only going to benefit the crorepatis of Sadashivnagar & Koramangala 4th block & not the common man," he wrote.

One of his key allegations were that the tunnel road network would serve fewer people. IISc data shows a metro ...