Chandigarh airport to be named after Bhagat Singh

CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana governments have finally agreed to name the new international airport at Chandigarh after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. BJP's Punjab unit president Kamal Sharma, who mediated between the two states, urged Mahesh Sharma, union minister of state for civil aviation, to name the airport before March 23, the martyrdom day of the freedom fighter. The civil air terminal at Chandigarh airport was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 11 last year. Both states had earlier agreed to name it after Bhagat Singh, but later the BJP government led by Khattar, which assumed office in October 2014, wrote to the civil aviation ministry to name the airport after Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Mangal Sein.