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December 14, 2011

Akalis paved way for skyscrapers in city: Cong

Chandigarh, December 14
The Akalis have violated the Chandigarh Pheriphery Act with impunity thereby paving the way for massive sky scrapers, including Tata Camelot project without the clearance of the Environment Ministry. These allegations were leveled by Congress contesting candidate Chander Mukhi Sharma against SAD-BJP contesting candidate Harjinder Kaur from Ward No. 15 that her party had been working against the interest of the residents of Chandigarh. In fact she had never opposed her party’s decisions which affected the smooth development of the city.
Raising the issue of denying the water share from Kajauli Water Works phase 5 and 6 to Chandigarh, Chander Mukhi Sharma said that despite the approval of the project by the Central government, Punjab SAD-BJP alliance Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal scrapped the project and denied the share of water to Chandigarh.
Sharma stated that due to opposition of the Akali government, Panjab University was deprived of getting central university status. He said that this proposal was rejected by the Akalis with the plea that the Centre should give the status of central university to Bathinda rather than Chandigarh.
Demanding to clear the Akalis stand on Chandigarh as to whether the city should be merged with Punjab or not, Chander Mukhi Sharma said as Harjinder Kaur had a double face she had not cleared her party’s stand on this issue in her manifesto.
Alleging that there is hardly any development work done in the Ward No.15 during Harjinder Kaur’s regime, Chander Mukhi Sharma said that lapsing of the development fund proved that she had not nursed her ward properly in the last five years. Harjinder Kaur, however, said that all these allegations levelled by the Congress candidate were baseless.

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