Former BJP President Nitin Gadkari will be in city on Wednesday to chair the conference of trade, industries and investors here. The conference is being organised by the local unit of BJP here and Madan Mohan Mittal, Industries Minister, Punjab, will preside over the function.
This visit of Nitin Gadkari is considered important for the upcoming parliamentary elections. All the three aspirants for the Chandigarh parliamentary seat, including Sanjay Tandon, president of Chandigarh BJP, Satyapal Jain, former MP and Harmohan Dhawan, former union minister are expected to talk to Gadkari separately to stake claim for the ticket.
As Tandon and Jain were in Delhi on Tuesday to meet BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Harmohan Dhawan said a memorandum of demands has been prepared which will be handed over the Gadkari on December 25 in
the conference.
Vinod Aggarwal, president of the cell said that there is need to rehabilitate those shopkeepers, who were removed along with the colonies few days back, they used to do their business in the colonies for the last more than two to three decades.
He also demanded permanent place for the businessmen doing their marble business, regularise the places in front of the shops situated in the grain market in sector 26, abolish the entry tax on several items imposed by the Punjab Government while taking these from Chandigarh to Punjab etc.