BJP flags adorn Panipat ahead of meet

Mukesh Tandon

Tribune News Service

Panipat, January 14

More than 5,000 party flags and hoardings bearing the photos of BJP leaders adorned roads, including NH-1, in the city today.

The city is ready to welcome BJP bigwigs, including Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, for the BJP state executive committee meeting which will be held in the conference hall of Arya PG College on January 15 and 16. Around 280 delegates are expected to attend the meeting.

Member of the decoration committee Dushyant Bhatt said the city had been covered with around 5,000 party flags and 300 hoardings, of which 30 had the Chief Minister’s photo while 30 had the photos of state BJP president Subhash Barala.

Bhatt said the district committee had decided to install in the city 10 hoardings each of all nine Cabinet ministers, six Ministers of State and Chief Parliamentary Secretaries, adding that party workers have also put up banners on their own in the city.

Bhatt said all hotels and rest houses, where the BJP leaders would stay, had also been covered in party flags and banners.

Sanjay Bhatia, chairman, Khadi Gramudyog Board, and also the general secretary of the state BJP, said all necessary arrangements had been made for the meeting.

Special traffic arrangements have also been made for the VIPs.

Meanwhile, special Identity cards will be issued to the mediapersons for the first time in the state to cover the party meeting.

Road renovation started 

The district authorities are hurriedly trying to renovate bad roads, especially the Sector 25 bypass road, where VIPs would stay in a hotel. Sources said the work had been allotted to the contractor without a work order being issued by the Municipal Corporation.