Ghaziabad: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit the city on Wednesday and inaugurate the 16 Infrastructure projects 30 crore worth Rs
The move comes in run-up to two. By-elections The Ghaziabad assembly seat is slated later this year, which fell vacant after MLA Atul Garg was elected to the Lok Sabha in the recent general elections.
Among the projects that the Chief Minister will inaugurate is a 50-bed project. Hospital At Vijayanagar, constructed at a cost of Rs.10 crores. A hostel and roads at a cost of Rs 1.6 crore in Vijayanagar are among the other projects to be inaugurated on Wednesday.
“Yes, they will inaugurate a total of 16 projects, with a total cost of over Rs 30 crore,” said a district administration official.
Besides these, Adityanath will lay the foundation stone of a public health centre, solid waste management plant and a composite school at Khoda.
After the inauguration, the Chief Minister will address a gathering at the Ramlila Ground in Kavinagar, where a job fair will be held. They will also distribute digital tablets to students at the fair.
However, MP Garg refused to link the inauguration of the projects with the upcoming by-elections.
He said, “These projects will be inaugurated now, but work on them was going on even before the Lok Sabha elections were announced. Now that these projects are ready, the Chief Minister will inaugurate them. Nothing to do.”
Ghaziabad is one of the 10 assembly seats in UP where elections are scheduled. Adityanath had also visited the city last month and held a 45-minute closed-door meeting with party workers to chalk out a strategy for the bypolls.
The Mayawati-led BSP and the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) – led by Chandrasekhar Azad 'Ravan' – have announced their candidates for the polls by the end of this year.
Asked when the BJP would announce its face, Garg said, “The decision will be taken by the party high command. But BJP's practice is to announce the names after the election date is announced.”