Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party (SP), has addressed a letter to the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, about the building of numerous expressways and highways in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav has demanded that the 408.77-kilometer Chambal Expressway between Etawah, Uttar Pradesh and Kota, Rajasthan, be completed, according to an official letter. The letter also requests that a six-lane highway be built from Gwalior to Lipulekh. The head of the SP also requested in a letter that the Bundelkhand Expressway be connected to Satna and that the motorway from Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, be joined to Haridwar, Uttarakhand. Additionally, it calls for a 25-kilometer extension of the Purvanchal Expressway to Buxar-Bhagalpur, Bihar.
Akilesh Yadav also discussed the ongoing unrest in Bangladesh earlier in the day on his official account, saying that no community should suffer violence. “No community, whether it is the majority of Bangladesh with a different viewpoint or the minority of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists or any other religion-sect-belief, should become a victim of violence. The Indian government should strictly raise this issue at the international level as a matter of protection of human rights. This is also a very sensitive issue of our defense and internal security,” he posted on X.
In the backdrop of growing protests, Sheikh Hasina tendered her resignation from her position on August 5, leaving Bangladesh with an unstable political situation. Thousands of Hindus from Bangladesh have been escaping the violence by travelling to India, a neighbouring country.
Hindus, who account for 8 per cent of Bangladesh’s 170 million inhabitants, have long backed Hasina’s Awami League party, which has come under fire after anti-quota demonstrators and security forces engaged in violent altercations last month.
(with inputs from ANI)