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In a first for any city in India, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has announced that it will be starting a sleeper bus service between Hebbal and Silk Board, thus making it India’s first intra-city sleeper-bus service. The BMTC has announced that the service will be inaugurated by ace sleeper and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda as well as his protege and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah.
“Not only does Bangalore have insane traffic between these two areas, but it is also the capital of a state that is blessed with the country’s best sleepers like Deve Gowdru and Siddaramaiah avaru,” BMTC chief Anjum Parwez told The UnReal Times. “It has been observed that not one person in the existing bus route between Hebbal and Silk Board stays awake during the commute. People who are standing also lean against the rods and snooze away. By the time the bus gets stuck in peak traffic at KR Puram and Marathalli Bridge, even the driver and conductor doze off for a while. So keeping all these things in mind and the fact that even the likelihood of Rahul Gandhi playing a greater serious role in politics is more than that of the Bangalore Metro becoming fully operational, it is only appropriate that we introduce such a service.”
“People couldn’t survive the traffic and the pollution and that led us to introduce Air-Conditioned Volvo buses. Now we’re going a step further and introducing full-fledged sleeper buses so that people can sleep comfortably during their commute. Tickets will be tentatively priced at around Rs.120,” Parwez added.
An upbeat Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told The UnReal Times, “It is amazing! I’m so proud of BMTC for pioneering another bus service for the rest of the country to emulate! All this is only due to the vision of Rahul Gandhiji, Sonia Gandhiji and Manmohan Gandhiji. I’m used to dozing off in many functions that I’ve been invited to, but this is the first time I’m attending a function that I’m actually supposed to sleep in. So I’m very thrilled and eagerly looking forward to it.”
(Editor: Ashwin was going to interview Deve Gowda as well, for his views, but was arrested before that, under Karnataka’s Goonda Act)
(Based on a tweet by PuneetKumar Pattar)