Janjivan Bureau / HISAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday flagged off a commercial flight from here to Ayodhya and laid the foundation stone of the new terminal building at the airport. In line with his commitment to make air travel safe, affordable and accessible to all, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of Maharaja Agrasen Airport’s new terminal building to be built at an estimated cost of over Rs 410 crore. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress on the birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar, accusing the party of turning Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs into “second-class citizens” while in power.
Addressing a gathering after flagging off the first commercial flight from the Maharaja Agrasen airport here to Ayodhya and laying the foundation stone of a new terminal building at the airport, he alleged the Congress has become the destroyer of the Constitution framed by Ambedkar.
The Congress “crushed” the Constitution whenever its government faced danger, Modi alleged and pointed to the 1975-77 Emergency to reinforce his claim. “The spirit of the Constitution is to have a uniform civil code, which I call a secular civil code. But the Congress never implemented it.”
“Babasaheb Ambedkar wanted to bring equality, but the Congress spread the virus of vote bank (politics) in the country. He wanted every poor person to live with dignity, with heads held high, to dream and fulfil them. But the Congress made the SCs, STs and OBCs second-class citizens,” he said.
After flagging off the flight and laying the foundation stone of the new terminal building, Modi said the Centre is emphasising connectivity on the one hand and ensuring social justice and welfare of the poor on the other. “This was Ambedkar’s dream,” he said.
The new terminal building of the airport will be built at a cost of Rs 410 crore. The project will be completed in two years.
The scheduled flights from Hisar to Ayodhya twice a week, and three flights in a week to Jammu, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh are expected to mark a significant leap in Haryana’s aviation connectivity.
It will include a state-of-the-art passenger terminal, a cargo terminal and an ATC building. The project is targeted to be completed in two years.
About Modi flagging off the inaugural flight from here to Ayodhya, a statement had earlier said that scheduled flights from Hisar to Ayodhya twice a week, and three flights in a week to Jammu, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Chandigarh will mark a significant leap in Haryana’s aviation connectivity.
Modi is in Haryana to launch several development initiatives worth Rs 10,000 crore in the state on Monday to mark the birth anniversary of Bhim Rao Ambedkar, an iconic figure known for his role in Dalit emancipation and framing the Constitution.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and several state ministers were among those present at the event.Modi said flights from Hisar to other cities would begin soon.
