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Demand for dist headquarters in Mahendragarh takes centre stage

Voters flagging issue before candidates
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The long-standing demand for establishing district headquarters in Mahendragarh city has taken a centre stage in the Assembly poll as voters are flagging this issue before the candidates in fray.

Mahendragarh is only such district in the state whose district headquarters is located in Narnaul town, located 25 km away from here. Locals, including advocates and traders, have organised protest demonstrations many a time in the past to mount pressure on the state government. However, the demand has not yet been met.

“People of the city and Satnali town have to go to Narnaul for every administrative work as all senior officers sit there, hence we have been raising the demand for district headquarter to be established in the city for a long time. The easiest way to meet the demand is to create Narnaul a separate district,” said advocate Bansi Lal Yadav.

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He said the advocates, along with traders and people of other fraternity, had staged a dharna for 86 days on the court premises two years ago regarding this demand. The then CM, Manohar Lal Khattar, assured them of fulfilling the demand while adopting a procedure in this respect but nothing had been done so far, hence the issue was being raised prominently in these elections, he added.

“The issue is so significant that every candidate in fray is promising us to get this demand met on coming to power, hence we are hopeful about something positive after the formation of new government,” said Yadav, adding that an indefinite dharna was also staged outside Mini-Secretariat here for the same demand in August, but it was suspended after the model code of conduct came into being.

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Ram Niwas Patoda, who has been flagging the demand for long, said the people of Mahendragarh city had been deprived of the facility of district headquarters for the past 58 years.

Meanwhile, outgoing Mahendragarh MLA and Congress candidate Rao Dan Singh said the Congress would fulfil this long-pending demand after coming to power. “Narnaul will be made a separate district while district headquarters will be established in the city,” he said.

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