The Wire, Ram Guha peddle fake news about Central Vista project: Facts
Op IndiaRecently, Ramachandra Guha made a hue and cry about Hindustan Times rejecting to publish his article. In Guha’s own assessment, “Kishore focused on one key element in the project: the provision for a grand new house for the prime minister, on Rajpath” The author, Alpana Kishore, tells us that it already cost us about INR 10,000 crores, over the past 30 years, to construct the current PM’s residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg! Here is a challenge to Guha – can he point out to one official document that tells us that 20,000 crores worth of funds has been “currently allocated”? On September 2, 2019 the Union government issued a public press release, inviting bids for appointment of a consultant for “Development/Redevelopment of Parliament Building, Common Central Secretariat and Central Vista at New Delhi”. The bid document clearly states the following deadlines: Parliament House to be constructed by July 2022 Central secretariat by March 2024 Central vista redesign by November 2020 If, for a moment, we were to believe that Narendra Modi “yearns for a house on Rajpath”, why would he set a March 2024 deadline for the same, when his present term ends in May 2024?
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