Chandigarh: Local residents’ hopes of the Mohali International Airport becoming operational in the second week of this month were dashed when Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his visit to the region on June 19. Modi was to inaugurate the 300-acre airport during his visit to the region to celebrate the 350th foundation year of Anandpur Sahib.
Sources said neither the PM nor the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had given a positive response to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s repeated pleas of Modi inaugurating the airport.
With fissures appearing in the SAD-BJP alliance, the PMO also didn’t pay heed to the pleas of Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju in this regard. Sources said the SAD and the BJP had disagreements over the levy of entry tax on sugarcane and the shifting of militant Devinder Pal Bhullar from Tihar Jail in Delhi to Amritsar Central Jail.
22/06/15 Varinder Singh/Tribune India
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Sources said neither the PM nor the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had given a positive response to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s repeated pleas of Modi inaugurating the airport.
With fissures appearing in the SAD-BJP alliance, the PMO also didn’t pay heed to the pleas of Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Ashok Gajapati Raju in this regard. Sources said the SAD and the BJP had disagreements over the levy of entry tax on sugarcane and the shifting of militant Devinder Pal Bhullar from Tihar Jail in Delhi to Amritsar Central Jail.
22/06/15 Varinder Singh/Tribune India
