Congress President Sonia Gandhi (Source: PTI) Congress President Sonia Gandhi (Source: PTI)

Amidst ongoing controversy over renaming of the government schemes launched by the previous UPA dispensation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Wednesday brought a resolution against renaming of the Indira Awas Yojna as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna. The resolution, that will be sent to Narendra Modi government at Centre, recommending that the decision should be reverted.

Sonia brought the resolution in a meeting of the District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee she chaired in Rae Bareli, her Lok Sabha constituency. The resolution was unanimously adopted by all the members, including four MLA’s of the Samajwadi Party.

“Sonia Gandhi brought a proposal regarding renaming of Indira Awas Yojana. It was discussed that apart from being the former Prime Minister of the country, Indira Gandhi had also represented Rae Bareli in the Parliament and thus renaming of the scheme named after her should be opposed from here. All of us agreed and the resolution will now be sent to the Centre,” said Manoj Pandey, SP MLA from Unchahar Assembly seat and also a minister in UP cabinet.

District Magistrate Suryapal Gangwar confirmed the move and said the resolution will be sent to the central government for consideration.

Meanwhile, Pandey claimed that during the meeting he also raised the issue of work on AIIMS in Rae Bareli not progressing further. He said the decrease in the flow of funds from Centre for welfare schemes and development works in Rae Bareli was also condemned in the meeting.

“Our Chief Minister has given them (Centre) land worth Rs 1,000 crore free of cost for the AIIMS. While efforts of the UP government in providing help to farmers affected with hailstorm was praised in the meeting, the decrease in release of funds by Centre was condemned,” said Pandey.

Apart from the vigilance committee meeting, Sonia also met public at Bhuvemau guest house and later held a four-hour long meeting with the officials at Vikas Bhawan.

DM Gangwar, who was earlier asked to address the water crisis, made a presentation before Sonia informing her that out of about 60,000 handpumps installed in the district, about 20,000 were found to be non-functional in a survey. He further informed that out of these 20,000, about 15,000 have been repaired.

“The MP (Sonia) had written to me about two months ago on the water crisis and we have been able to address it to a greater extent,” the DM said.

Meanwhile, sources informed that Sonia allotted five solar powered pumps to each Assembly segment in Rae Bareli from MPLAD fund.

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