KCR wrote to the prime minister that the Central View Project was long overdue. (Archive)
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- The Prime Minister will hold the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building
- Before tomorrow’s event, Prime Minister Modi received a letter from KCR
- The Central Vista project is a “project of national importance,” KCR wrote.
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, preparing to symbolically launch a part of the ambitious Central Vista project tomorrow, received a congratulatory letter from Telangana’s Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, calling it a “project of national importance” and a symbol of national pride. and self esteem. .
“The new Central Vista project will be a symbol of the self-esteem, prestige and national pride of a resurgent, secure and strong India. I look forward to the rapid completion of this prestigious and nationally important project,” said Rao, popularly known as KCR wrote in the short letter.
He said the project was long overdue as the existing government infrastructure in the national capital is “inadequate and is also associated with our colonial past.”
Prime Minister Modi will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Parliament building that will be built at nearly Rs 1 billion as part of the major Central Vista project to restore buildings at the seat of power in Delhi.
The event was allowed by an angry Supreme Court, which chided the government for “aggressively moving forward” on the project even before its decision on petitions challenging the plan on environmental concerns.
“The first stone can be laid, the paperwork can be carried out, but without construction or demolition, without cutting down trees,” the Supreme Court told Attorney General Tushar Mehta, representing the government.
The Rs. The 20,000 crore Central Vista project seeks to rebuild a 3 km stretch from the Rashtrapati Bhavan presidential palace to the Gateway of India. The project will line up along Rajpath, the ceremonial path between the two buildings, and will form the seat of government beginning with the Northern Block. The project has received criticism from opposition parties, historians and green activists.
KCR likely hopes its praise for the prime minister’s pet project will knock out part of the ruling BJP’s attack on its decision to demolish a 150-year-old historic secretariat building in Hyderabad, showing skewed priorities at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The Chief Minister, who believes in Vastu, wants a new office building at a cost of 600 million rupees with six floors; consider the number “six” to be lucky.
The radical move resulted in a poor outlook for the Chief Minister, whose Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) recently won the Hyderabad civic elections by a very slim margin, with the BJP making huge profits at its cost and emerging as the main opposition.
Yesterday, the TRS even participated in the Bharat Bandh or national lockdown in support of farmers, took on the BJP-led central government and raised slogans against Prime Minister Modi.
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