Partap Singh Bajwa, MP and President Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) on Wednesday flags off Pathankot-Delhi Express train (Dn 14038) at Dhariwal railway station where the train has been given halt from today.
Dhariwal(Gurdaspur), December 4, 2013: Partap Singh Bajwa, MP and President Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) today flagged off Pathankot-Delhi Express train (Dn 14038) at Dhariwal railway station where the train has been given halt from today with the efforts of Bajwa.
Bajwa was accompanied by Charanjit Kaur Bajwa MLA and local party leaders. He said that he would take up with the Railway Minister to construct second platform at Dhariwal and also provide basic amenities at the railway station. He gave a water cooler for the station out of his MPLAD fund. He said that he would also take up the issue of unmanned railway crossing at Dhariwal.
The Dhariwal town falls in Gurdaspur Parliamentary constituency and the Qadian assembly segment presently represented by Mrs. Charanjit Kaur Bajwa.
Bajwa said that he had earlier get approved Quadian-Beas rail line which would have been a historical link between headquarter of Ahmadiya Muslim Jammat at Quadian and headquarter of Radhaswami Dera at Beas. He said that the project couldn't be executed because SAD-BJP government didn't acquire the land. He said that the former Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had agreed to set up Rail parts manufacturing unit in Punjab and he (Bajwa) had written to Badal to send a proposal. He said that Badal didn’t respond to his letter and the project was shifted to Haryana.
Others who were present at the function included Divisional Railway Manager (Ferozpur) Mr. N.C. Gupta, Barinder Singh Chhotepur, Radha Krishan Puri, Kewal Krishan, Gian Singh, Baldish Toor, Vidhya Bhushan Duggal, Sushil Modgill, Advocate Rakesh Kumar and Baljit Pal Singh./ punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news