Gill Flyover inaugurate yet again, Cabinet Minister Gabria, who was present earlier too, opens it along with Deputy Speaker

Ludhiana : Political leaders leave no stone unturned to take the credit of every work conducted in the city. The perfect testimony to this was the inauguration of an arm of the Gill Chowk flyover by leaders of the SAD-BJP alliance today. However, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had already inaugurated the project amid much fanfare a few months back. It was on May 26 last year that the Deputy CM had inaugurated the project after which a part of it was made operational while the work on an arm from the Malerkotla side was still on. It took more then six months for the civic body to complete the project after which the MC officials had been waiting from last fortnight to start the movement of traffic from the road to ease out the traffic in the area. But it was not opened for the general public as politicians wanted to take the credit for the development work. But finally, Mayor Hakam Singh Giaspura gave his consent to inaugurate the arm of the flyover on Tuesday. Subsequently, Giaspura, Cabinet minister Hira Singh Gabria, Deputy Speaker Satpal Gosain, Senior Deputy Mayor Praveen Bansal and a battery of other councillors and officials of the MC inaugurated the arm of flyover from the Malerkotla side and termed it as the biggest achievement of the city which would held in decongesting the traffic. However, inaugurating the same project twice has not gone down well with councillors of the Opposition Congress, who termed it as wastage of public money. Congress councillor Rakesh Prashar said as the Mayor does not have anything to his credit, he was inaugurating the same project again and again. Prashar said residents would not be swayed away by such cheap tactics. Sanjay Talwar, another Congress councillor said to attain publicity, leaders of the SAD-BJP alliance were resorting to such tactics. He said the arm had been ready from last more then a month but due to the desire of the Mayor to get publicity from the already inaugurated project, the residents were made to suffer. MC Mayor Hakam Singh Giaspura was not available for comments. When contacted, Senior Deputy Mayor Praveen Bansal said the city had witnessed unparalleled development during their tenure and the Congress councillors were opposing them for sake of opposition.