Samajwadi Party built it: Akhilesh on BJP's Tejasvi Surya praising Yogi for Agra-Lucknow Expressway
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The Agra-Lucknow Expressway that BJP's Tejasvi Surya is praising was built by Samajwadi Party, not UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Akhilesh Yadav wrote on Twitter.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took to Twitter on Thursday evening to poke fun at BJP MP Tejasvi Surya over a tweet the latter posted earlier in the day about the Agra-Lucknow Expressway.
Tejasvi Surya, the MP from Bangalore South, posted a video of the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Twitter on Thursday morning.
He captioned the video: "Lucknow to Kannauj in Yogi Ji's #ExpresswayPradesh #UPYogiHaiYogi".
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Reacting to the tweet, former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav wrote on Twitter: "Had heard about darkness under a lamp... Seeing the ignorance of BJP leaders, it can be said that 'Surya' means darkness under the sun."
"The Agra-Lucknow Expressway which he [Tejasvi Surya] is praising, he should know that it was built by us [Samajwadi Party] and not 'unupyogi' (useless) ji," said Akhilesh Yadav who is contesting the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for the first time from Mainpuri's Karhal seat.
The 302-km long Agra Lucknow Expressway was inaugurated by the then chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in November of 2016. However, the expressway was opened to the public only in February 2017.
