Akhilesh moots for Delhi-Kolkata bullet train; asks why PM launched it in Gujarat

Lucknow, Sept 14: Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said it would have been better if Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the first bullet train between Delhi and Kolkata passing through UP and Bihar. "Most of the population reside in UP and Bihar and if a bullet train passes through this region it would have been developed more. The Prime Minister too had claimed today on the foundation stone laying function on development on the bullet train project leading to giving jobs to the youths," he told reporters here. Mr Yadav said they were not opposed to the bullet train project but demanded that it should also be started in the Delhi- Kolkata sector connecting, Lucknow, Varanasi and Bihar. Mr Yadav, however, did not spare the Prime Minister for launching the bullet train project in his native state of Gujarat." These BJP people had attacked me for launching most of the projects from Saifai, by native place during the SP regime but Mr Modi too also went to Gujarat to launch the bullet train project. So now what will BJP leaders say on this?" he asked. Reacting on the photos of Mr Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on the bank of Sabarmati river yesterday, Mr Yadav claimed, "Gomti riverfront is more beautiful that Sabarmati and these two dignitaries should have clicked there more photos," he said. UNI