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Bhopal: Chief minister Kamal Nath has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding translocation of Gir lions to Kuno national park in Madhya Pradesh. The MP forest department had promised to complete all formal processes of declaring Kuno as a ‘national park’ by the end of February. Madhya Pradesh forest department had notified Kuno as a ‘national park’ in compliance with the last condition imposed by a Supreme Court-appointed committee for ‘translocation of Asiatic lions from Gir in Gujarat.’The notification was published on December 14, minutes after Congress announced Kamal Nath as the new chief minister of the state. While MP won the eight-year-long legal battle with Gujarat in 2013, the latter had been dilly-dallying on compliance. He has also requested Modi to issue necessary directives in this regard to Gujarat government and Union ministry of environment.Kamal Nath has also cited a WII-Dehradun report claiming that Kuno is now ready to accommodate lions..