Residents inconvenienced as Chandigarh Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma opens supply line

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Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 26

Local residents were inconvenienced as the police barricaded Sector 48 area where Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma had come for the inauguration of a water supply line today.

Residents had to walk a long way as the road was closed. A huge police force was deployed there in view of the recent incident in which the Mayor’s vehicle was attacked during a farmers’ protest.

Our society gate was locked from 4 pm to 6.30 pm by the police on Monday. Residents were not allowed to go out. Our society is 300 metres away from the venue where the inauguration of the water supply line took place. –  Davinder Gupta, president, RWA, Universal Society, Sector 48

“Here is a surprising order and action by the Chandigarh police today when the police, under the Sector 49 SHO, closed the entrances to the societies in Sector 48 and locked their gates. They also took the keys of the gates and went away leaving the innocent residents confined to their flats,” said Congress leader Sandeep Bhardwaj, who also lives in this sector.

“This is a dictatorial act of the police. After my failed requests to police officials, I urged SSP Kuldeep Chahal who responded well and ordered the SHO to open the gates of the societies and allow the movement of residents. The draconian orders of the local police are unbearable. We the residents of the societies of Sector 48 strongly condemn the police action,” he added.

The police barricade a long stretch of area wherever the Mayor visits. It is causing trouble to communters in the city.

Meanwhile, the Mayor inaugurated the water supply line, along with a pumping system and other allied works, from the booster tubewell in Sector 48-C to Kendriya Vihar Society, Sector 48-B. The project has been completed at an estimated cost of Rs 9.5 lakh.