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SRINAGAR: In a video gone viral, BJPs Mayor of Jammu, Chander Mohan Gupta is seen asserting and predicting that by 2031-32 the city of Jammu will witness the first snowfall and eventually the UT of Jammu and Kashmir will become the Switzerland of the world.
An aerial view of the Wazarat road, Jammu. KL Image: Masood Hussain
The video has made Gupta instantly famous on social media. “Post 370 abrogation, Jammu Mayor says, Jammu will be getting snowfall soon, Waw!” journalist Bashir Manzar tweeted. “Am planning to sell electric blankets,
bukharis and heaters there. And
Kangris too.”
It is the afforestation drive in the Jammu city which has made the father of the city optimistic about snowfall in sultry Jammu in the next decade. “There is so much of plantation that we are witnessing frequent rains, and very soon, that day is not far when there will be snowfall in Jammu city also by 2031,” he said in an interview with a Hindi News Channel