New Delhi, May 16

A group of military veterans have written to President Ram Nath Kovind, requesting that reconstruction of the Central Vista project in New Delhi be stopped.

Calling it a “wasteful” expenditure, they said the project shouldn’t have started at a time when the country lacked resources to provide basic medical assistance to its suffering citizens. “The construction should be stalled for now. It will be in the interest of the nation,” they wrote in the letter. —TNS