After a section of the newly-inaugurated Bundelkhand Expressway caved in on Thursday, Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh have started hitting it out at the BJP governments in the state as well as at the Centre
The expressway, which was inaugurated last week by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, got damaged at Chhiriya Salempur in Jalaun Tehsil.
Videos tweeted by the Samajwadi Party and the Aam Aadmi Party showed repair work with the help of a JCB being carried out at the damaged section of the expressway.
On its Twitter account, SP tweeted that rains have exposed the incomplete Bundelkhand Expressway, while also accusing the BJP of misleading the people.
The AAP took a jibe and said the development work carried out by the double engine government could not survive for even a week.
A car is reported to have got stuck in the damaged expressway section and got damaged. Officials have now ordered an inquiry into the matter.
The videos of the damaged section of the Bundelkhand Survey are now going viral on social media.
PM Modi inaugurated the expressway on July 16 and it was he who had laid its foundation stone on February 29, 2020. The expressway was built in about 28 months.
The 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway passes through seven districts of Uttar Pradesh, namely Chitrakoot, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Auraiya and Etawah, and has been built at a cost of around Rs 14,850 crore.
The expressway stretches from NH-35 at Gonda village near Bharatkoop in Chitrakoot district to Kudrail village in Etawah district. There, it merges with the Agra-Lucknow Expressway.
The four-lane expressway has been built in such a manner that it can be later expanded into six lanes.
