Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor. Khattar met the Prime Minister at the latter's residence in New Delhi to extend the invitation.
On this occasion, he also extended his warm wishes to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his birthday, which falls on September 17.
After the meeting, the Chief Minister while talking to the mediapersons said that PM Modi has been invited to visit Haryana to lay the foundation stone of the Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor to be constructed at a cost of Rs 5600 crore. He said that the foundation stone laying programme would be organized at Manesar or Palwal or any other place on the Orbital Rail Corridor route in Haryana.
Khattar said that he has apprised the Prime Minister about the new initiatives being taken by the Haryana Government like Parivar Pehchan Patra, Meri Fasal-Mera Byora, Mera Pani-Meri Virasat and Auto Appeal software.
When asked about Haryana Cabinet expansion, the Chief Minister said that discussion on this was held with the BJP national president.
During his meeting, the Chief Minister also apprised the Prime Minister about the status of farmers' agitation in Haryana, the lathicharge on farmers in Karnal last month and actions being taken to reopen the highways blocked due to the ongoing farmers' agitation against the three central farm laws for over nine months.
Khattar said that the Prime Minister had sought the status of ongoing farmers agitation during the meeting and also enquired about the Karnal incident. On Karnal incident, he said that it has been agreed to conduct a detailed inquiry into the lathi charge case by a retired judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and we will accept the findings in the inquiry and act accordingly.
About the road blockade on the Kundli-Singhu border near Sonipat district on national highway no-44 due to farmers’ protest, the Chief Minister said that a high level committee has been constituted to hold discussion with the farmers’ leaders after the directions of Supreme Court.
A day before, the State Government had constituted a state-level committee comprising of Additional Chief Secretary, Home, Rajeev Arora as chairman and Director General of Police PK Agrawal; Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Navdeep Singh Virk; Secretary, Home-I Department, Dr Balkar Singh.
The committee shall hold discussions with the farmers organizations to resolve the issue of blockades of inter-state roads and national highways to avoid any inconvenience to the general public. The concerned divisional commissioners, commissioners of Police, Inspectors General of Police, District magistrates and superintendents of police shall also be associated with the committee for holding discussions with the farmers.