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Malviya Nagar Constituency Jaipur: Park on JLN Marg: A Major Issue for Malviya Nagar Constituency in Jaipur | Jaipur News
Jaipur: A small piece of green, opposite to the World Trade Park on JLN Marg, has set out to be a burning issue for the forthcoming assembly election in the Malviya Nagar constituency of the city. More than 4,000 voters of the nine colonies adjacent to this park had also got involved in a legal tangle with the state government after the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) had decided to hand over the park to a private firm for construction of a private hospital.
While carrying out campaigns at the adjacent colonies, the sitting MLA and the BJP candidate of Malviya Nagar constituency, Kalicharan Saraf, had taken up this issue and had promised the residents to revoke the decision of JDA.
“If BJP comes to power the government would ask JDA to revoke the decision. This plot of land would remain as a public park for the locals and people of Jaipur,” Saraf said during his campaign.
It was in 2008 when the then Ashok Gehlot-government had struck an agreement with a private company to allow construction and operation of a private hospital on this prime land. In 2013, after Vasundhara Raje became the chief minister, the agreement was cancelled on the ground that hospital building has not been constructed within a stipulated period of four years, as per the agreement. The JDA, then, spent crores to convert this into a public park.
Recently the JDA struck a new deal with the same private firm following an order from a Lok Adalat in favour of the concerned company.
Locals claimed that they feared that if Congress came to power, they would close the park with immediate effect. A section of locals also feared that despite promises from Saraf, even the BJP government may continue with the decision of the earlier government.
Third, there is a strong apprehension that JDA may complete the deal before the new government is formed.
“All residents’ associations of the affected nine colonies had moved the high court seeking stay on JDA’s agreement with the private company and the Lok Adalat order. This Park is considered as the lungs of the local residents. We cannot allow the government to play with this plot. We have at least eight to nine hospitals in the vicinity and there is no need for a new hospital in the locality,” said Uma Sharma, the president of Adi Nath Colony Residents’ Welfare Association, one of the petitioners of the case.
While carrying out campaigns at the adjacent colonies, the sitting MLA and the BJP candidate of Malviya Nagar constituency, Kalicharan Saraf, had taken up this issue and had promised the residents to revoke the decision of JDA.
“If BJP comes to power the government would ask JDA to revoke the decision. This plot of land would remain as a public park for the locals and people of Jaipur,” Saraf said during his campaign.
It was in 2008 when the then Ashok Gehlot-government had struck an agreement with a private company to allow construction and operation of a private hospital on this prime land. In 2013, after Vasundhara Raje became the chief minister, the agreement was cancelled on the ground that hospital building has not been constructed within a stipulated period of four years, as per the agreement. The JDA, then, spent crores to convert this into a public park.
Recently the JDA struck a new deal with the same private firm following an order from a Lok Adalat in favour of the concerned company.
Locals claimed that they feared that if Congress came to power, they would close the park with immediate effect. A section of locals also feared that despite promises from Saraf, even the BJP government may continue with the decision of the earlier government.
Third, there is a strong apprehension that JDA may complete the deal before the new government is formed.
“All residents’ associations of the affected nine colonies had moved the high court seeking stay on JDA’s agreement with the private company and the Lok Adalat order. This Park is considered as the lungs of the local residents. We cannot allow the government to play with this plot. We have at least eight to nine hospitals in the vicinity and there is no need for a new hospital in the locality,” said Uma Sharma, the president of Adi Nath Colony Residents’ Welfare Association, one of the petitioners of the case.
