Chandigarh: For the last 47 years, Punjab and Haryana have engaged in a war of words over territory. Now they are sparring over a name.
Haryana has objected to Punjab coming up with a new town in close proximity to Chandigarh and naming it New Chandigarh.
The new town, where big ticket realtors like DLF Omaxe and several others have already lapped up prime land — agricultural fields till not long ago — and started housing and commercial projects, will come up where the Punjab village of Mullanpur Garibdas once stood.
Disapproving of the Punjab government’s decision to rename Mullanpur Garibdas as New Chandigarh, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has termed it “unethical”.
“The chemistry of Chandigarh cannot be changed. If today I rename Gurgaon as Newly-Born Delhi or Modern Delhi, what will it mean? It is not ethical. It is for the Punjab chief minister to decide,” an upset Hooda said.
IANS
