The response by the housing and urban affairs ministry is to Alpana Kishore’s piece titled ‘Central Vista is an illegitimate monument to deceit’. We are publishing the response in full.
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Slamming the opposition, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said a false narrative is being created over the Central Vista redevelopment plan and asserted that it is not a vanity project , but a necessity. Hitting out at 60 former bureaucrats over their open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the project, Puri said, They are not educated fools, but they are a disgrace to the country. Citing some parts of the letter during a press conference, Puri, whose ministry is executing the Central vista redevelopment project, said these former civil servants have alleged that the government is building a new parliament building because of superstitious beliefs .
Hardeep Singh Puri
NEW DELHI: Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri slammed opposition parties and claimed they had roped in activists for creating a “false narrative” around the Central Vista project. Sixty former bureaucrats who have raised objections to the project were also the target of the minister’s ire as he dubbed them “padhe likhe murkh” (educated fools).
Citing the Delhi High Court order which dismissed a PIL against ongoing works on the Central Vista Avenue or Rajpath, the minister said the Delhi Disaster Management Authority never put a ban on construction activities and his ministry in its affidavit had submitted how construction works were going on at 12 different sites in Delhi. He said the revamp of Rajpath will be completed by November this year.