Predicting the return of Samajwadi Party to power in 2017, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said that people will see him in new ‘avtaar’ in the next stint as the present tenure was a learning curve.
“Earlier Opposition leaders used to say there are five CMs in UP. Now they are saying there are three. The fact is that this tenure has taught me a lot. You will see a new CM in my next tenure,” Yadav said while addressing a function at RIMS, Saifai, which was granted university status on Tuesday.
Yadav said that he was sure that people would vote for development. “Our Government has performed in the last four years and a half. I am ready to debate with anyone on development work being done by our Government. What we have achieved in a brief time, no other Government can even think of competing with us,” he said.
State BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya had challenged the CM to have a debate on development issues.
The CM spoke at length on development in infrastructure sector. “It is because of our Government that the lucknow-Agra Expressway would be operational in 22 months which other Governments would have taken 8-9 years to complete. It will not only shorten distance between Agra and lucknow, but also provide a readymade market to farmers along it,” he said.