Opposition unhappy over Rs 125-crore funding: Chandigarh Mayor Babla

Mayor Harpreet Kaur came down heavily on the Congress-AAP alliance in the city over its stand on the Centre approving the release of Rs 125 crore to the Municipal Corporation.

Babla said it was disheartening to see the alliance’s palpable unhappiness over this. “While residents and stakeholders across Chandigarh are celebrating the much-needed financial relief, the Congress-AAP seems to be bent on playing politics. Their actions reveal a clear pattern — they are upset that the V3 roads have been transferred to the Administration and that the long-overdue recarpeting work is set to begin at an estimated cost of Rs 45 crores,” she said.

The Mayor said she had full cooperation from the city BJP and its president Jatinder Pal Malhotra.

She said, “Had the Congress-AAP alliance not opposed the V3 road agenda in the House meeting in March, roads in the city would have been transferred to the UT Administration in that very month and the recarpeting would have been done by now, sparing residents of the inconvenience.”