India, Oct. 23 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Pune district, scheduled for November 3, has been deferred, leaving the inauguration of the long-delayed Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar Metro Line 3 uncertain. November 16 is being considered as a possible revised date, but there is no official confirmation of the visit or the inauguration programme.

Modi was scheduled to visit Baramati to inaugurate Prerna Sthal, a memorial on the premises of Vidya Pratishthan, an educational institution headed by Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar. The memorial features a statue of Lord Buddha and exhibits on other prominent personalities.

Yugendra Pawar, Sharad Pawar's grandnephew and a trustee of Vidya Pratishthan, confirmed ...