Agartala, Aug 6 (TIWN) The BJP-led government in Tripura is likely to open the first flyover in Agartala soon, even as the police is inquiring into alleged "irregularities in the Rs 300-crore project", officials said on Tuesday.

Officials of the Tripura Police Crime Branch on Monday questioned the previous Left Front government's Finance and Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Badal Choudhury for five hours.  The erstwhile Left Front government led by former Chief Minister Manik Sarkar had authorised a Hyderabad-based private company to construct the flyover in 2015.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government filed an FIR in March this year to probe alleged "irregularities in the project".  The FIR has named two ex-PWD Chief Engineers and three others as accused.  "Some works are now going on. After completion of the works, the flyover would be inaugurated and opened for traffic," Public Works Department Chief Enginnner (Roads and Bridges) Dipak Chandra Das told media on Tuesday. 

When asked about the questioning of former PWD and Finance Minister Badal Choudhury, Deputy Inspector General of Police (crime branch) R. Gopala Krishna Rao said that they examined the former minister and cleared some queries about the flyover as he was the PWD Minister when the flyover project was sanctioned.