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Last Update: May 12, 2023, 6:57 pm IST
Ashok Gehlot said that PM Modi had promised to declare ERCP as a project of national importance. (File photo/ IANS)
Addressing a gathering in Alwar district, Gehlot said the BJP had envisaged the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) to ensure drinking and irrigation water for 13 districts.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday alleged that whenever the BJP government is formed in the state, it stalls the projects started by the Congress government.
Citing the example of the Barmer refinery project to make his allegation, he said the delay in the project has resulted in extra expenditure.
Addressing a gathering in Alwar district, Gehlot said the BJP had envisaged the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) to ensure drinking and irrigation water for 13 districts, including Alwar, and that his government would continue the project. is kept He said that this project was started by former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.
He, however, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to declare ERCP as a project of national importance and that he had written to him on the matter but he is yet to receive a reply. According to an official statement, he said, “When the BJP government is formed in the state, the projects started by the Congress are put on hold.”
The Chief Minister inaugurated the Mini Secretariat building in Alwar.
He said that whenever the new division will be formed, Alwar will be the priority.
Recently, the state government announced the formation of three new circles in the state.
He expressed confidence that the people of the state would repeat the Congress government in the state in the upcoming assembly elections.
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