Governor Gulab Chand Kataria
Various political parties are strongly protesting against the Center over the allotment of land for the new assembly building in Chandigarh. Meanwhile, Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday said that no plot has been assigned yet in this regard. Kataria, while answering a question on the sidelines of an event here, said: ‘No plot has been assigned yet. Their (Haryana) proposal has been pending for a long time, but until a decision is taken on it, nothing can be said.
Opposition parties, including AAP, angry
The statement by Kataria, administrator of Union Territory Chandigarh, is significant in the sense that Punjab’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and opposition parties are angry with the Centre’s alleged decision to approve the 10-acre allotment of land to Haryana for his new assembly. building.
received environmental authorization
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has reportedly given environmental clearance to the land offered by the Haryana government to the Chandigarh administration in lieu of the land provided for the construction of the Haryana Assembly building here. .
offer of land in exchange for land
The Haryana government has offered 12 acres of land in Panchkula instead of 10 acres of land near IT Park Road in Chandigarh. At present, there are separate assembly complexes of both states in the common building complex adjacent to the Punjab and Haryana State Secretariat. Chandigarh is the joint capital of both the states.
Not a centimeter of land will be handed over – AAP
On Friday, a delegation of the Aam Aadmi Party met the Punjab governor on this issue and said that Chandigarh belongs to Punjab. Not even an inch of its land will be given to Haryana for the construction of its assembly building. Aam Aadmi Party MP Malvinder Singh Kang on Saturday wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and termed the alleged move as an attempted invasion of Punjab’s capital city.
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