LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party on Monday accused the district administration in Ghazipur of not only stopping the party from proceeding with their Vijay Yatra to Azamgarh using the Purvanchal expressway, but also claimed that authorities have placed boulders at all entry points of the expressway.
He said if permission was not granted to him to use the expressway, he would inaugurate it symbolically by offering flowers as the project is originally that of the Samajwadi Party government.
Though initially the SP chief was slated to take the expressway route from Ghazipur to reach Azamgarh on Tuesday, looking at the response of the district authorities he postponed his event by a day. He will now reach Ghazipur on Wednesday and take the expressway route to reach Azamgarh as a part of his ‘Vijay Yatra’.
“I am happy that the Prime Minister will inaugurate the expressway — a project of the Samajwadi Party government,” he said, adding that the ruling BJP cannot name a single project that the government had laid the foundation of and inaugurated it as well.
Citing an instance that took place during the BSP regime, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav recalled how he had planned to cycle his way from Noida on the then newly constructed expressway but the government stopped him. “We carried the bicycles on our shoulders and crossed the new expressway and inaugurated the project,” he said.
