Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma and MP CM Mohan Yadav additionally held a joint press convention on the scheme Sunday.
Whereas Sharma mentioned that ERCP will present reduction from water issues in areas akin to Jhalawar, Baran, Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Karauli, Dholpur, Bharatpur, Dausa, Alwar, Jaipur, Ajmer and Tonk districts of Rajasthan, Yadav claimed that the undertaking will meet the economic wants of consuming water in lots of districts, together with Shivpuri, Gwalior, Bhind, Morena, Indore and Dewas.
“Modi’s guarantee means guarantee poori hone ki guarantee [guarantee of fulfilling guarantee]... Boon for Eastern Rajasthan. I can’t define in words the blessings, affection and affection showered by thousands of my dear family members of Rajasthan at the airport on arrival in Pink City Jaipur after the historic success of ERCP,” Sharma posted on the social media platform ‘X’ (previously Twitter) together with a hashtag marketing campaign #rajasthanThanks4ERCP.
मोदी की गारंटी मतलब गारंटी पूरा होने की गारंटी…
पूर्वी राजस्थान के लिए वरदान ERCP की ऐतिहासिक सफ़लता के पश्चात गुलाबी नगरी जयपुर आगमन पर एयरपोर्ट पर हजारों की संख्या में राजस्थान के मेरे प्रिय परिवारजनों द्वारा बरसाये आशीष, स्नेह व अपनत्व को शब्दों से परिभाषित नहीं किया जा… pic.twitter.com/f1PjrEcI4S
— Bhajanlal Sharma (@BhajanlalBjp) January 29, 2024
Plenty of state BJP leaders and ministers additionally thanked PM Modi for fulfilling the “long-standing demand” of the state.
In response to a senior BJP chief in Rajasthan, the signing of the MoU will give them “direct” advantages in 13 districts, because the celebration seems to be to capitalise on the problem of ERCP on 9 Lok Sabha seats beneath these districts.
The problem of ERCP in Rajasthan has been making headlines for the previous few years. In 2017, the then chief minister Vasundhara Raje had ready the Jap Rajasthan Canal Challenge and despatched it to the central authorities to resolve the water downside in 13 districts of jap Rajasthan.
Explaining the scheme, the BJP chief mentioned that in this time (in 2017), a requirement was made to the central authorities that “ERCP should be declared a national project and it should be completed”. Nevertheless, in 2018, the Congress authorities got here to energy within the state, and the ERCP scheme was put beneath chilly storage, the chief claimed.
“Led by Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister of Jal Shakti, intense consensus-building exercise was done by the Jal Shakti ministry during the past few years to build a consensus among both the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to implement this project,” a press release by the Jal Shakti ministry mentioned Sunday.
Beneath the ERCP, surplus monsoon water is diverted from the Chambal basin. The undertaking was envisaged by the earlier BJP authorities as a everlasting resolution to the irrigation and consuming water problems with residents within the 13 districts of the state, it added.
“Achievement of consensus among both the states is a demonstration of inter-state cooperation under the able leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, thus paving the way for the joint development and inter-basin water transfers in Chambal basin on the lines of Ken-Betwa Link Project. This is a success of cooperative federalism in the country,” the Union authorities assertion mentioned.
Each the states will make their very own detailed undertaking experiences (DPRs) and can create their very own property, mentioned a senior official within the ministry, including that the Centre might be a facilitator.
In the meantime, the Congress has accused the BJP authorities on the Centre of “deliberately not implementing” the scheme when the opposition celebration was in energy within the state between 2018 and 2023.
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In search of credit score for resolving the problem between the 2 states, which are actually ruled by the BJP, Rajasthan BJP spokesperson Laxmikant Bhardwaj mentioned, earlier the scheme couldn’t materialise because the then MP CM Kamal Nath had raised sure objections to the scheme when it was despatched to the Centre by the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities.
“After this, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat held at least 11 meetings to resolve the issue and streamline the scheme, but not a single meeting was attended by Ashok Gehlot. The BJP and PM Modi had given a commitment about ERCP and this is an example of Modi ji’s guarantee. The scheme could not be implemented as politically Congress didn’t wish to resolve the issue,” mentioned Bhardwaj instructed ThePrint.
In the meantime, a celebration chief defined that, whereas the scheme impacts 13 districts, it impacts at the very least 40 % of the state’s inhabitants.
“The nine Lok Sabha seats that will be directly impacted are Jaipur Rural, Dausa, Alwar, Bharatpur, Tonk–Sawai Madhopur, Ajmer, Jhalawar-Baran, Kota-Bundi, and Dholpur-Karauli,” mentioned the celebration chief.
In the meantime, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan BJP president C.P. Joshi mentioned, “…This scheme will prove to be a milestone for development… The MOU for the ERCP scheme has been a historic decision… A dispute of 20 years has been resolved and a golden chapter has begun after the double-engine government was formed.”
#WATCH | Jaipur: On the ERCP MoU signed with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan BJP President CP Joshi says, “…I want to that PM Modi on this occasion… This scheme will prove to be a milestone for development… The MOU for the ERCP scheme has been a historic decision… A dispute of… pic.twitter.com/eGxC4Vt4Wj
— ANI (@ANI) January 29, 2024
Even because the BJP was fast to say credit score, the Congress has prior to now accused the Centre of intentionally not implementing the scheme.
After the Congress authorities got here to energy in Rajasthan in 2018, the then CM Gehlot had requested PM Modi to declare the ERCP a nationwide undertaking.
“This is a project of 2017 when the BJP government was in power. In 2018, PM Modi had promised to make it a national project. But the BJP lost the elections and the focus of the party shifted from this project,” Swarnim Chaturvedi, normal secretary, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee, instructed ThePrint.
“In 2018, our government (Congress) came to power in the state. A total of eight letters were written by Gehlotji, and even during interaction with PM Modi in NITI Aayog meetings, he had raised the issue. He had requested that the project be declared a national project,” Chaturvedi added.
He claimed that as the price was coming as much as be very excessive, Gehlot had requested the Centre for help. “The BJP is busy doing politics on it now but it didn’t do anything then,” he mentioned.
Terming the MoU an “eyewash”, Chaturvedi claimed {that a} new DPR will now be made and the implementation will take a really very long time.
(Edited by Richa Mishra)
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