Residents of Gaggal here today held a protest rally against the proposed expansion of the local airport. Hundreds of people from Gaggal and its surrounding areas, whose land is likely to be acquired for the project, gathered here early in the morning and marched till the main gate of the airport.
The protesters alleged that hundreds of families would be uprooted from fertile land to be acquired for the expansion of the airport. “We will be uprooted for the second time. Initially, we were displaced for the creation of the Pong Dam lake. We then settled in Gaggal area and now we fear being uprooted again,” they said.
