Kanpur: As PM Modi Inaugurated the Kanpur Metro Rail on Tuesday, Samajwadi party digs in for taking credits. Samjwadi Party before the inauguration ceremony shared a photo of the foundation stone event by then-CM Akhilesh Yadav, on Twitter. The 403-seat UP assembly where Yogi rules with an iron-clad majority of 314 seats, is up for grabs in February 2022.
Samajwadi Party slams Bhartiya Janta Party for taking credits for all the work started by them. Listing projects which PM Modi recently inaugurated – Kushinagar International Airport, Purvanchal Expressway, Ganga Expressway at Shahjahanpur, SP has claimed that all these projects were envisioned by the Akhilesh yadav government.
Samajwadi Party tweeted a photo of laying the foundation stone of Kanpur Metro captioned, “Samajwadi Party’s work is for public.”
Akhilesh Yadav had laid the foundation stone of the project in presence of then Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu and then Kanpur BJP MP, Murli Manohar Joshi.
Amid this BJP replied that Akhilesh Yadav has a habit of banging credits of their work. The construction of this project started when Yogi led BJP government came to power. “The construction of the project started under the tenure of CM Yogi Adityanath on November 15, 2019, and the 9-km-long first leg of the project was completed in a record tenure. Kanpur Metro is going to be the fastest built metro project in the country,” BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said. BJP said the project took just 25 months to be inaugurated since work started.
UP Poll campaign
BJP has announced that it will fight along with allies Nishad Party and Apna Dal (S) under the leadership of CM Yogi Adityanath. On the other hand, SP has tied up with Mahan Dal, NCP, SBSP, RLD, PSPL and has kept his doors open for AIMIM, AAP. BSP chief Mayawati has already announced that her party will fight polls alone in UP and Uttarakhand, while allying only with Akali Dal in Punjab. Congress has aggressively campaigned under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi in the state, eyeing its solo return. Other parties like AIMIM, SP, JDU, AAP, Shiv Sena have announced that it will contest polls.
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