Padma Bridge will help AL-led alliance to win next election: Inu
"With the inauguration of the Padma Bridge, the Awami League-led 14-party alliance will win the next election to rule the country once again," Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Haq Inu remarked in his immediate reaction following the formal opening of the mega project.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Padma Bridge - country's largest self-funded mega project - on Saturday morning.
The main event is being held at Mawa and Jajira, both sides of the Padma Bridge.
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The project has been implemented at a cost of Tk30,193.39 crore with almost 100% internal funding.
Starting in 1999 with a pre-feasibility study, construction of the bridge, which has since generated numerous headlines, has had its share of delays and even courted controversy.
The construction of the 6.15-kilometre bridge was supposed to start in 2015, but the cancellation of foreign aid for it and an increasing depth of the river, among other complications, delayed the work.
