"Rahul Gandhi used to talk about linking Amethi to Unchahar through railway line. I can challenge that his four generations would not have got this work completed but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has got this work started and the day is not far when it will be a reality," she told reporters here.
The project was announced the then UPA government in 2013 for the Gandhi pocket borough.
Without taking the name of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Irani said, "A big Congress leader used to say only 15 paise of one rupee sent by the Centre reaches villages, but now, because of the efforts of Modi the entire sum is reaching the beneficiaries through jan dhan accounts.