Gandhinagar:

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Keshubhai Patel while condoling the death of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee today remembered his ‘invaluable’ contribution in the progress of Narmada project.

Patel, who now mostly remains away from media limelight due to his poor health, told newsmen that a beloved leaders of many, Atalji, had given the Naramda project a big boost.

‘He has many achievements to his kitty and he was an undoubted great leader but one thing I would like to recall and share. This is about the Narmada project, the lifeline of Gujarat. Whem I was Gujarat CM and he was PM of India, I had gone to meet him. I told him that the Narmada project’s was stalled for over a year and a half. He gave me a patient hearing and his reply was terse that the needful would be done and to our pleasure he allowed the increase of height by 20 more meters. It was a great help for Gujarat where water is scanty,’ Keshubhai himself a Nonagenarian reminisced.

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