New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday (May 7, 2021) criticised the central authorities for going forward with the central vista undertaking, saying the federal government ought to put people’s lives at the centre amid the continued COVID-19 disaster.
Taking to Twitter, Gandhi wrote, “Central Vista is criminal wastage. Put people’s lives at the centre- not your blind arrogance to get a new house!”
Central Vista is criminal wastage.
Put individuals’s lives at the centre- not your blind conceitedness to get a brand new home!
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 7, 2021
Earlier additionally, Gandhi had slammed the federal government over the central vista undertaking and stated that the quantity might be used for totally vaccinating 45 crore Indians or for procuring one crore oxygen cylinders.
“Rs 13450 crores for Central Vista. Or, for fully vaccinating 45 crore Indians. Or, for 1 crore oxygen cylinders. Or, to give 2 crore families NYAY of Rs 6000. But, Prime Minister’s ego is bigger than people’s lives,” Gandhi stated in a tweet.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a petition to keep the development work of the central authorities’s Central Vista undertaking amid the surge in COVID-19 circumstances.
The petition moved by Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi has requested the apex court docket to droop all development exercise of the Central Vista Avenue Redevelopment Project in compliance with orders issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority through the subsistence of the height section of the continued COVID-19 pandemic.
The Supreme Court has stated that “we will see it.” However, the highest court docket has not given any date for listening to the matter.
The development of the Rs 20,000 crore undertaking within the nationwide capital has been introduced beneath the ambit of “important providers” by the central authorities.
