I don’t talk of making Bhopal london or Paris, but would like to develop the city as dreamt by the late Khan Shakir Ali Khan and would make all-out efforts for this, said newly-elected mayor of the city Alok Sharma while talking to media persons just after getting his winning certificate here on Wednesday. Sharma, a close confidant of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, assured the city dwellers after getting elected as the new mayor of the city that he would work to develop the city as per the dreams of noted Communist leader of the city Khan Shakir Ali Khan, popularly known as Sher-e-Bhopal.
Sharma, boasting to be ‘Barrukat Bhopali’ (a term used for the Bhopal native since ages) said, “I would follow Khan Shakir Ali Khan’s style of working and attributed his victory to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and party workers.” Sharma said, “My priorities include legalising illegal colonies and making Narmada water available to the city residents. Besides, the city would be developed as digital city, clean and green city.”
He said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged victorious in all the four civic bodies that went to the polls on January 31 because of the development works done by the party’s Government in the State. Party workers played important role in making candidates victorious, they worked with allegiance to make party workers victorious, he added.The new city mayor said that the people make the BJP victorious on the basis of development works done by the BJP.