Will Inaugurate 'Samajwadi Purvanchal Expressway' in Symbolic Way, Says Akhilesh Yadav After Permission Denied for Rath Yatra
News 18Samajwadi 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. 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. The Ghazipur district administration has denied permission to Yadav’s Vijay Rath Yatra which was scheduled from November 16 from the city to Azamgarh as PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the state on the same day to inaugurate the Purvanchal Expressway.