Overview

• The Prime Minister inaugurated three Kolkata Metro stretches — Sealdah–Esplanade, Noapara–Jai Hind (airport) and Beleghata–Hemanta Mukhopadhyay — providing the city’s first direct metro connection to the airport and promising major travel time savings.
• He also laid the foundation stone for a six‑lane elevated Kona Expressway project in Howrah valued at over Rs 1,200 crore, while noting Kolkata’s expanding role in India’s 1,000‑km‑plus metro network.
• Modi publicly backed the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill to remove a PM, CM or minister from office after 30 days in jail for serious offences; the bill, introduced by Home Minister Amit Shah, has been sent to a joint parliamentary committee.
• Framing infiltration as a security and demographic threat, he announced a demography mission to identify and expel illegal entrants and accused the TMC and other opposition parties of appeasement; the TMC countered by blaming the Centre for porous borders.
• Mamata Banerjee skipped the metro inauguration as political confrontation sharpened, while earlier in the day Modi unveiled or launched projects worth about Rs 13,000 crore in Bihar and repeated his anti‑corruption pitch at rallies in Gaya and Kolkata.