‘Shettar misleading people’
Newindpress.com
Friday November 17 2006 10:29 IST
HUBLI: Revenue Minister Jagadish Shettar is misleading the people of Hubli-Dharwad stating that the inclusion of twin cities under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renovation Mission was a closed chapter, said president, JNNURM and Kalasa-Banduri Project Implementation Action Committee, Anilkumar Patil.
Patil told reporters here on Thursday that Shettar had never shown interest to bring pressure on the Centre seeking the inclusion of Hubli-Dharwad under the programme.
Stating categorically that the Action Committee led by himself was not affiliated to any political party and was a sheer non-political entity, Patil said that Shettar and MP Prahlad Joshi had held former Chief Minister Dharam Singh responsible on many occasions for non-inclusion of twin cities under the Mission.
In reality, it was Dharam Singh who first given preference for Hubli-Dharwad under the scheme only after Mysore, Gulbarga and Hassan.
But, it was Shettar, who remained inactive despite being a minister when it was learnt that twin cities were dropped out of the scheme, he said.
He said that he was informed by Union Minister of State for Planning M V Rajashekharan that twin cities have not been dropped out of JNNURM permanently, and the proposal was under consideration of union ministry of urban development as inclusion of more cities under the scheme required some relaxation of policy matters.
Some politicians are trying making ‘scapegoat’ by taking out malicious propaganda, alleged Patil stating that he would take a delegation to Union Urban Minister Jaipal Reddy in New Delhi seeking inclusion of the twin cities under the Mission.
