Political News: Will Inaugurate ‘Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway’ in Symbolic Way, Says Akhilesh Yadav After Permission Denied for Rath Yatra

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said he will symbolically inaugurate the ‘Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway’ by offering flowers as the Ghazipur district administration has denied permission for his Rath Yatra.

Yadav also claimed the BJP was five years behind SP as during the SP regime, fighter jets had landed on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway and now a similar exercise would be done on the Purvanchal Expressway.

Speaking to the media in Lucknow on Monday, Yadav said, “Our senior leaders met the Ghazipur District Magistrate but permission has still not been granted for our programme. In such a case, I will symbolically inaugurate the ‘Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway’ by offering flowers on Tuesday. There is already a deployment of police outside the houses of Samajwadi Party leaders in Sultanpur.”

He added, “The BJP has not done anything of their own in the last four-and-a-half years which they could have inaugurated; the work for Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway was started during the SP regime. Now I am getting to know that BJP is trying to copy SP by making fighter jets land on the expressway. We did that five years back on Agra-Lucknow Expressway and had set an example. The BJP is five years behind us.”