Cong, BJP spar over name of bridge

Dehradun | Thursday | 21st September, 2017

Summary:

To promote the Prakash brand, which he has developed after his father’s name, he named the bridge Prakash Ganga Bridge which is wrong.”Batra, however, said that the name of the bridge had nothing to do with his private businesses. Rana said that the shifting was “illegal” since permission was not taken from the municipal corporation for it. The statue was originally set up opposite a public toilet in Civil Lines market in 1971. The bridge built of steel has come up at the cost of Rs 6.10 crore to connect Civil Lines and BT Gunj market.TOI spoke to the mayor who alleged, “Batra is a very shrewd person. Batra had said that they got a platform constructed at the crossing and placed the statue on it to decongest the area where the statue was originally set up..