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SAD flays Ludhiana Improvement Trust move to rename Atal housing scheme

SAD flays Ludhiana Improvement Trust move to rename Atal housing scheme

SAD leader Maheshinder Singh Grewal addresses the media in Ludhiana. Ashwani Dhiman



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Ludhiana, October 15

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today condemned the Ludhiana Improvement Trust’s (LIT) decision to rename the Atal Apartments housing scheme in Shaheed Karnail Singh Nagar.

Senior party leader and former minister Maheshinder Singh Grewal said it was condemnable that the LIT was showing disrespect to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee through its decision to rename the housing scheme.

Asking the Ludhiana Improvement Trust not to indulge in such narrow-minded politics, Grewal said: “We must rise above partisan political lines while commemorating the memory of a towering figure such as Vajpayee who enhanced the nation’s prestige worldwide with his acts of statesmanship.”

Grewal called upon the LIT authorities to review the decision to rename the housing scheme.

He said other deserving dignitaries could be given due recognition by naming some other scheme or project after them. “We should, however, not send out a message that we disrespected the memory of a stalwart like Vajpayee in any manner.”

The SAD leader also advised the LIT to respect the sentiments of residents of the city who also did not want the name of the housing scheme to be changed.


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