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Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday hit again on the Congress for attacking the federal government over its Central Vista redevelopment challenge, saying the get together’s discourse is “bizarre” as its leaders themselves had supported the thought when the UPA was in energy.
The accusation comes hours after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi criticised the Narendra Modi authorities for executing the challenge, terming it a “criminal wastage”, whereas asking the dispensation to deal with individuals’s lives throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Congress’s discourse on Central Vista is bizarre. Cost of Central Vista is about ₹20,000 crore, over several years. GoI has allocated nearly twice that amount for vaccination! India’s healthcare budget for just this year was over ₹3 lakh crore. We know our priorities,” Puri tweeted.
In a sequence of tweets, the Union housing and concrete affairs minister, whose ministry is executing the federal government’s formidable challenge, stated the Central Vista is just not a brand new challenge and alleged that throughout the UPA authorities, Congress leaders had written about the necessity for a brand new parliament.
“Congress does not cease at hypocrisy. Look at their shameful double face. During UPA, Congress leaders wrote about the necessity for a brand new parliament.
The Speaker in 2012 wrote a letter to Urban Development Ministry for a similar. And now they’ve the gall to oppose the identical challenge?,” he stated.
“They want to distract people from monumental governance failures in their states by spreading lies. So they indulge in cheap politics despite knowing this project creates direct & indirect employment for thousands of skilled, semi-skilled & unskilled workers in these times,” he alleged in another tweet.
Puri additionally accused the Congress and its allies of splurging on reconstructing an MLA hostel in Maharashtra and constructing a brand new Legislative Assembly constructing in Chhattisgarh, including that “If this is fine, what is the problem with Central Vista?”
Earlier within the day, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged in a tweet: “Central Vista is criminal wastage. Put people’s lives at the centre- not your blind arrogance to get a new house!”
Puri stated there are tons of of tasks being executed by varied departments and added that governance has not come to a standstill, not like the Congress’s occasions of coverage paralysis.
“…Central Vista is just another ongoing project. It’s only the Congress that’s obsessed about it, nobody else.” Puri stated.
Besides the brand new Parliament constructing, the redevelopment of the Central Vista — the nation’s energy hall — envisages a standard central secretariat, revamping of the 3-km Rajpath from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, new Prime Minister’s Residence and Prime Minister’s Office, and a brand new Vice-President Enclave.
In another tweet, Puri stated only tasks for brand new Parliament constructing and rejuvenation of Central Vista Avenue have been awarded at an estimated price of Rs 862 crore and Rs 477 crore respectively until now.
He additionally stated there are lots of parts in Central Vista challenge that are unfold over a number of years. The work on the brand new Parliament constructing and revamping the Rajpath has began. The authorities has set a goal of holding the 2022 Republic Day parade on “modernised” Rajpath.
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