Lucknow: A day after the Noida International Airport at Jewar was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BSP national president Mayawati, on Sunday, said that the airport would have been completed much earlier, and during her tenure only, had the then Congress govt at the Centre not created “obstacles”.She said that not only the blueprint but also the other essential foundational work for the project had already begun during her govt. This was when BSP had formed the govt in UP for the fourth time, in 2007. It was BSP’s first majority govt in UP which also completed its full five-year term.“This development work, like the Yamuna Expressway and others, would have been completed much earlier during my own government had it only been for the Congress govt at the Centre to not create obstacles,” said Mayawati.BSP was succeeded by Samajwadi Party govt in 2012, when Akhilesh Yadav became the chief minister of UP for the first time.On Sunday, Mayawati also criticised the SP govt for not taking the development works initiated by her to conclusion.She said, “As far as SP govt is concerned, instead of spending most of their time on concrete development efforts to eradicate poverty and backwardness in UP, they devoted majority of their time to negative, casteist, and politically motivated hatred, specifically to nullifying the historic decisions and important works undertaken by the BSP govt for welfare, well-being, and upliftment of society’s weaker sections.”“SP also took to changing the names of educational and medical institutions, districts, and other projects built in the honour of great saints, gurus, and luminaries born in the ‘Bahujan Samaj’,” she said.Mayawati, on Sunday, once again appealed people of UP to “not fall for the deceptive politics and enticements of opposition parties but place your faith in BSP’s policies and principles of ‘Sarvajan Hitay and Sarvajan Sukhay’ and rely solely on BSP’s iron leadership for your own development as well as that of the state”.Reaching out to people in western UP, she also questioned the time being taken in fulfilling two long pending demands of a separate high court bench and a separate state for it.
