Lucknow: Accusing the governments at the Centre of meting out step-motherly treatment to Uttar Pradesh over the years, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that the state did not get enough cooperation in return for the support it extended to central governments.
"I got the chance to work with two prime ministers - Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi. We extended all support to the Centre but we did not get enough cooperation in return. Niti Ayog deducted Rs 9,000 crore central assistance to UP," he said.
"Problems in villages remain the same. We made efforts to ensure progress of the state. We have done a lot in these years. The biggest expressway is being constructed in UP. We are not giving land to builders but we are constructing mandis (wholesale grain market) which will benefit farmers," he said.
"The expressway will open on October 2. It will improve the economy of the villages. We are connecting district headquarters with four-lane roads. America built roads and roads built its economy. I have said this several times that if you double the speed then you can triple the economy," he said.
Attacking the Centre, Yadav said the NDA government is giving free cylinders but it cannot be refilled without "Samajwadi party's pension" which is benefiting 55 lakh families in the state.
The Chief Minister claimed that no other state was constructing metro on such a large scale.
"It is already being constructed in Lucknow and DPR for Kanpur is being prepared. We want to construct metro in PM's constituency Varanasi," he said.
On power generation front, he said the state has doubled the generation.
He said that thanks to better power supply, the demand for invertors went down by 40 per cent in Kanpur. In Varanasi, he said, when a BJP leader staged dharna, the government provided 24-hour electricity supply.
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