Telangana minister counters PM Modi remarks on free bus for women scheme

Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks in opposition to the free bus for women scheme in Telangana and several other states, state transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar said that some states are implementing the scheme to support the financial growth of women and the PM is “unable to digest”



it.

He also rejected the link that the PM made between the state transport body buses and the metro.

“Metro sector is different. We are requesting even now to increase the number of bogies on the Hyderabad metro. Is the PM making such remarks to gain politically?” he asked.