CM accepts Jakhar’s invitation to visit rain-hit Abohar - Shopkeepers block highway to protest inundated streets
Friday, 12/09/2014
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Abohar : Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has reportedly accepted Jakhar’s invitation to Abohar town. Badal had held a Sangat Darshan in Sappanwali village when some villages were submerged due to overflowing drains in September last year but Jakhar was not invited to the meeting.
Jakhar, during a whirlwind tour of localities inundated with rainwater, claimed that he had last night apprised the Chief Minister of the grim situation in the town and requested him to visit the town. Badal has scheduled his visit for September 15. “I told the Chief Minister that thousands of people here are suffering as the projects funded by the Centre have not been executed by the state agencies so far,” he said at a meeting in Subhash Nagar.
Scores of shopkeepers staged a dharna on the Malout highway to protest inundation of streets with sewage water. CLP Leader Sunil Jakhar told the authorities to streamline the drainage system. The dharna was lifted after an hour. District Congress vice-president Vimal Thatai has been told to coordinate with the administration in rescue and relief operations.
