‘Sukhbir hijacking credit for flight resumption from Sahnewal’

Ludhiana: The fight to take the credit for resuming flights from the Sahnewal airport continues with Member of Parliament and national spokesperson of the All India Congress Committee Manish Tewari claiming to have exposed the false claims made by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal.
Quoting this year’s budget speech of Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal, Tewari said, “Relevant paras 38 and 39 of the speech the FM had had made make it abundantly clear that it was the Airport Authority of India which upgraded the air strip in Sahnewal near Ludhiana.”
In a statement issued here today, supported by the relevant documents including the relevant excerpts of the budget speech of Manpreet Badal and the communication between him (Tewari) and the Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and CMD of the Air India Arvind Jadhav, Tewari said it was more than clear that the state government did not make even an iota of contribution for upgrading the airport. “Rather it had failed what it was actually expected to do”, he said, while pointing out that the state government could not manage to acquire the required land for augmenting the facilities at the airport.
18/05/10 Indian Express

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Categories: Airports May 2010