The credit war on the 341-km-long Purvanchal Expressway intensified on Tuesday as the Samajwadi Party symbolically inaugurated the project ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to UP to launch the e-way.
In a fresh tweet, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said: “Lucknow se lace aaya and New Delhi se scissor aaya. To take credit for SP’s work is ‘Khichham-Khichai’. It is expected that till now the people of Lucknow sitting alone will remember the length of ‘Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway’. By inaugurating it with ‘Bahurangi Pushpavarsha’, the SP will answer those with monochromatic mindset.
The SP chief also tweeted pictures of Samajwadi Party workers symbolically inaugurating the expressway by showering flowers and cutting ribbons. They rode on their cycles at various places on the expressway after the administration blocked the road with boulders at some places.
DM Ghazipur had earlier denied permission for the fourth phase of the Rath Yatra by Akhilesh Yadav, which coincided with the PM’s schedule on Tuesday. The SP has now rescheduled the program for November 17.
Yadav had earlier claimed that the BJP was five years behind the SP as during the SP rule, fighter jets had landed on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and now a similar exercise will be carried out on the Purvanchal Expressway.
Attacking the ruling BJP, he had said, “BJP has not done anything of its own in the last four-and-a-half years which they could have inaugurated; The work of Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway was started during the rule of SP. Now I am getting to know that BJP is trying to copy SP by landing fighter jets on the expressway. We did this five years ago on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and set an example. BJP is five years behind us.
The former chief minister had also alleged that the Yogi Adityanath government has compromised the quality of the expressway. The company that built the Ram temple was about to do this project but BJP changed the company too. There are no facilities on the expressway yet, even toilets are not built. Please walk on this expressway at your own risk,” he quipped.
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