Purvanchal expressway inauguration today, Samajwadi Party alleges anomalies

Lucknow, November 15

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday charged the BJP government with compromising on the quality of Purvanchal Expressway to cut down the project cost and inaugurate it before the Assembly polls to claim credit.

Quality compromised

To make the eway cheap, there has been a compromise on its quality. To take credit ahead of polls, the BJP is going to inaugurate the half-baked eway. Akhilesh Yadav, SP

Regretting the denial of permission by the Ghazipur administration to use the expressway on the pretext of its inauguration, the SP chief said his party would offer flowers in a symbolic gesture to mark the inauguration on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the 340-km-long expressway connecting Ghazipur with Lucknow in Sultanpur on Tuesday.

“To make it cheap, there has been a compromise on its quality. To take credit ahead of the polls, the BJP is going to inaugurate the half-baked (‘aadha-adhura’) Purvanchal Expressway. There has been a compromise with the quality with which it should have been built,” the SP chief told the media.

He said the foundation of the expressway was laid during his party’s tenure.

Pointing to the quality of work on the Agra-Lucknow expressway, he said in recent rains, some portion of it caved in.

“If you had travelled on the Agra-Lucknow expressway, you would have experienced that tea will not spill even if you drive at 100 km per hour,” he said. — PTI

PM to ride C130J

• The IAF will demonstrate to PM Modi that it can operate and turn around planes from a highway
• The IAF will land the PM and his entourage in a C-130J plane on a stretch of Purvanchal Expressway
• A 3.4-km stretch of eway has been built in a way that IAF can operate planes