Port Blair, March 15: The Zilla Parishad Member Shri Kurma Rao along with a delegation of various tour operators of Baratang and Port Blair met the PCC President Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma today at Gandhi Bhavan and recorded their gratitude for taking care of their problems when ATR was declared as closed.

Kurma Rao on the occasion explained the operators as how Sharma guided him to file the affidavit and what are the points to be included in it to convince the Hon’ble Court. Rao recorded his surprise that apart from the A&N Administration and this affidavit, no other affidavit was filed by any other party and or no other political leaders even thought of submitting such affidavit for the welfare of the tour operators.

He further said that the other prominent leaders had created a chaos and used intolerable words against the Administrator and Congress Party so that they also do not come forward to help the operators.

Few tour operators of Baratang also recorded their gratitude for Sharma, Congress Party and the Administration  and accepted with guilt for being a part of the agitation.

In the above meeting this was also told that some rumours are being created that ATR has been made open only upto 2015, which is totally baseless. People may download the verdict of the Honourable Court and themselves find as to how innocent people are being misguided, said the Secretary to the PCC President, Shri Haridas Chattopadhyay in a communication to the press.