The Center had requested for a width of at least seven meters so that military vehicles could ply on the road. The request was denied. The planned two-lane highway is now down to a single lane.
It is pertinent to note that it was the idea of the then UPA government to use the data collected in the process of NPR to implement a nation-wide NRC.
Lalu Prasad Yadav in 2009 was very excited about Bullet Trains in 2009 and Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister had given the nod to one between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
Tushar Mehta, the Centre’s second most-senior law officer who is appearing for the investigating agency, told the top court that one key witness refused to appear for face-to-face with Chidambaram "because he is too powerful".