Khattar faces flak for shifting martyr Dhingra’s statue

KARNAL: Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar came under fire on Monday for shifting the statute of martyr Madan Lal Dhingra from a park in the city to the new bus stand.

Khattar, who had come to unveil the statute at the bus stand, faced the wrath of protesters, who felt that the government had insulted the freedom fighter on his martyrdom day by uprooting the statue from one spot and installing it at another location. “The chief minister and his government could have arranged a new statue instead of shifting the one that was installed about 12 years ago,” said Kulwant Singh, a protester.

PLASMA BANK INAUGURATED

The CM also inaugurated a plasma bank at Kalpana Chawla

Government Medical College, Karnal, and urged Covid-19 survivors to come forward and donate plasma.

Replying a question about Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat convening a joint meeting of the chief ministers of Haryana and Punjab on August 18 to discuss the SYL issue, Khattar said, “Haryana’s stand is clear. The state will get its due share of water as per the Supreme Court’s orders.”