Post Purvanchal Expressway inauguration, work on three other expressways expedited

After the inauguration of Purvanchal Expressway by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, the state government has expedited the construction work on the Bundelkhand expressway and Gorakhpur Link expressway, as well as acquisition of land for the Ganga expressway.

In view of the crucial assembly election likely to be held early next year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes that rings of expressways across Uttar Pradesh will assist it playing the development card and neutralizing the non-performance tirade of the opposition parties.

That the expressways are likely to emerge as a major poll plank can be gauged from the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath chose the inauguration programme of the Purvanchal expressway to launch an attack on the opposition.