While Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday did the bhoomipujan of Andheri East-Dahisar and Dahisar-D N Nagar Metro lines at MMRDA grounds in BKC, Shiv Sena leaders boycotted the event and were conspicuous by their absence. However, Sena leaders said chief Uddhav Thackeray was in Beed district touring drought-affected areas.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, RPI president Ramdas Athawale and Minister for Higher and Technical Education Vinod Tawde at the bhoomipujan for two new Metro lines at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) yesterday. Pic/Sayed Sameer Abedi