The letter came a day after the cabinet decided on a 30 per cent salary cut for MPs. Conveying support for the decision, Sonia Gandhi offered what she called “five concrete suggestions”.
New Delhi: 07 April 2020. Cancel the “self-indulgent” Rs 20,000 crore “beautification project” in the heart of Delhi, suspend official foreign tours and stop government ads, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said today, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s outreach to the opposition in the fight against coronavirus.
The letter came a day after the cabinet decided on a 30 per cent salary cut for MPs. Conveying support for the decision, Sonia Gandhi offered what she called “five concrete suggestions”, which mostly served as a reminder of where the government can cut its own expenditure.
She urged the government to suspend the Rs 20,000 crore “Central Vista” project. “At a time like this, such an outlay seems self-indulgent to say the least. I am certain that Parliament can function comfortably within the existing historical buildings,” Sonia Gandhi wrote.
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Congress President and CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi writes to PM Modi suggesting various measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The money, she said, could instead be used to build new hospital infrastructure and diagnostics besides better equipping frontline COVID-19 workers.
