Central Vista: Case of misplaced priorities, says Congress

After the Supreme Court cleared the Central Vista Project on Tuesday, Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala slammed the government saying the Rs 13,450 crore mega project “is not a legalistic issue but a case of misplaced priorities” of a “whimsical autocrat seeking to etch his name in the annals of history with cement and mortar”.

Claiming such an opulent project amid an economic crisis was unjustifiable and reminding Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the financial cuts imposed by the government elsewhere, Surjewala further said in a tweet, “Ironical that in times of corona pandemic and economic recession, Delhi has Rs 14,000 cr for Central Vista and Rs 8,000 cr for buying aircraft for PM. But the same BJP govt imposes cuts of Rs 37,530 cr in allowances of 113 lakh armed forces, the central government employees and the pensioners”.

The Congress spokesman also said the government had imposed “cuts of Rs 11,000 cr on 15 lakh soldiers and 26 lakh military pensioners" and lamented that the same government “has no time to provide heated tents and equipment to our soldiers braving brazen Chinese incursions in Ladakh”.