In Uttar Pradesh, Leader of Opposition Akhilesh Yadav has attacked industrialist Adani and the Bharatiya Janata Party government on the pretext of Ganga Expressway.
Speaking in the discussion on the budget in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, the Samajwadi Party chief said whether the Ganga Express would be built within the stipulated time.
Taking a dig at the government, he said that it is not able to stand by the one who was given the task of building the Ganga Expressway. It may be noted that the work of constructing the proposed country’s largest Ganga Expressway from Meerut to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh has been given to the Adani Group.
Akhilesh said that all the industrialists came to the investors conference but the friends of the government did not come. He said that a friend is recognized when bad times come, so they should be called.
Representatives of the Adani Group did not turn up at the recently concluded Global Investors Summit. The Leader of the Opposition said that no one knows where one report has led to another.
He questioned that the people of Delhi had given the budget for which expressway to the state and how the Finance Minister would now come to Lucknow from the Ganga Expressway.
On the Yogi government’s claim of Uttar Pradesh becoming a trillion dollar economy, the SP chief said that where will it reach at the current rate of development.
Giving figures, he said that the average growth rate in 2017-18 and 200-21 was 7.8 per cent, which is 5 per cent less than during the SP government. He said that the trillion dollar economy needs a growth rate of 34 per cent, how would it be possible.
Akhilesh Yadav said that Chief Minister Yogi should change his economic advisor. Consultants are giving Rs 200 crore to a company to manage data but could not do it in six years. He said that the economic advisors have proved to be failures.
Raising questions on the annual budget of the Uttar Pradesh government, the leader of the opposition said that there is no idea of doubling the income of the farmers in it. It should be seen where Uttar Pradesh stands in the report of NITI Aayog. According to the commission, UP ranks 18th in quality education and 28th in terms of reduction in inequality. Misled on sugarcane and dues were not disclosed. The rate of employment should be told whereas there has been a decline between 2017 and 2022.
The SP chief said that the youth is desperate, but when will the government give the vacant jobs in the departments. MSME provides the maximum number of jobs but what has been done for it. On farming, he said that the potato crop has collapsed and the agriculture growth rate of UP is below the national level. He also raised questions on the government regarding non-spending of the budget in various departments.
