PM Slams Central Vista Critics As He Inaugurates New Defence Offices
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The Central Vista project has been criticised, with the opposition questioning the need to spend thousands of crores on government buildings during the Covid pandemic
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday morning inaugurated new Defence Ministry offices in Delhi and, as he did so, he took a swipe at the opposition over the contentious Central Vista project. #WATCH | "People who were after Central Vista Project would be conveniently quiet on this, which is also part of Centra Vista... They knew their falsity would be exposed...," says PM Narendra Modi at the launch of New Defence Offices Complexes in Delhi pic.twitter.com/jIFNaVv55d
He accused critics of the ambitious Rs 20,000 crore project - which includes building a new Parliament and central government offices, as well as the refurbishment of the North and South Blocks - of caring more about "personal agendas" than the condition of key government offices and ministries.
"We all saw how some people tried to sabotage the important Central Vista project... how they ran personal agendas to spread misinformation. But not once did they speak about the condition of these hutments... from where our ministries work. Not once did they mention the new Defence Ministry complexes and how crucial they are," the Prime Minister declared.
"... if they had done so, their lies and agendas would have been exposed," he claimed, hitting out at opposition leaders like Rahul Gandhi; in May the Congress MP called the Central Vista a "criminal wastage" of resources and urged the government to divert money to battling the pandemic.
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