Sachin Pilot Writes To PM, Seeks National Status For Canal Project

The letter from Mr Pilot, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's former deputy, comes ahead of PM Modi's proposed visit to Dausa on Sunday.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to grant national status to the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project.

The letter from Mr Pilot, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's former deputy, comes ahead of PM Modi's proposed visit to Dausa on Sunday.

In his letter on Thursday, Mr Pilot said the then-state government announced the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project in the 2017-18 budget as a permanent solution to the problem of drinking and irrigation water in 13 eastern Rajasthan districts.

"After that, in a meeting organised in Rajasthan in the year 2018, you also assured to declare this project as a national project but till now the said project has not been declared as a national project," he said.