Highlights: Prime Minister speaks after inaugurating rail line in Kashmir valley

Banihal, Jammu and Kashmir: Kashmir's dream of an all-weather surface link turned into reality today after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated a rail link between Banihal and Qazigund in the Valley.

He addressed a rally in Banihal hours later.  Here are the highlights:

• Today we give Jammu and Kashmir an engineering marvel
• People working on this faced a lot of geographical challenges while constructing this.
• This is not only an engineering marvel but it is a link that will connect the state to rest of the country
• Products made here will reach other parts of the country easily and vice versa
• This will also provide employment in the state
• We will keep connecting this railway line to other railway lines of the country