Chandigarh: Even before the international airport in the vicinity of Chandigarh becomes operational, Punjab and Haryana have been slugging it out over its nomenclature as much as their rights on it.
Though the airport is coming up on a piece of land owned by Punjab, Haryana wants its equal share in it.
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda claimed last week that the union civil aviation ministry has made Punjab and Haryana as joint partners in the international airport, something that deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal rebutted firmly on Wednesday. He said Haryana could lay no claim on it.
The tug of war does not end there. When it comes to naming the airport, Haryana wants it to be named as the Chandigarh International Airport, whereasPunjab has insisted it to be called as the Mohali International Airport. The MOU for the upgradation of the Chandigarh airport for international flights was signed in 2008 by the Airport Authority of India, and the governments of Punjab and Haryana.
09/06/11 Ajay Bharadwaj/Daily News & Analysis
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