New Delhi: As elections in Uttar Pradesh are just months away, political parties are leaving no stone unturned to influence the voter. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate Asia's largest 'Noida International Airport' in Jewar today, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took to Twitter and accused BJP of acquiring land of farmers to build the fifth international airport in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi asked PM Modi to compensate the farmers whose land has been acquired for the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar, and asked why they were left with no option but to live in tents.
Tagging a media report which claimed that some farmers were living in tents as they had not been allotted plots elsewhere while others had not been paid compensation for the land acquisition for the airport, Priyanka Gandhi asked why farmers in Jewar had not been paid compensation for their land.
Why are the families of farmers left with no option but to live in tents in this bitter cold, she asked.
"Compensation is the right of farmers. Narendra Modi ji, if your intentions with respect to farmers are honest, then don't leave the farmers homeless to fulfill your electoral ambitions," Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.
Not only Congress, but Samajwadi Party leaders also shared posters related to Jewar airport criticising the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday pulled down posters related to Jewar International Airport put up here in the city ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to lay its foundation stone, reported PTI.
The posters carried the pictures of local Samajwadi Party leaders asking the BJP government when it's going to sell off the under-construction airport. Police took down the posters -- reportedly put sometime the previous night - and booked several people in the matter.
"When will BJP sell off the Jewar Noida International Airport?", the posters read, as mentioned in the PTI report.
Akhilesh Yadav will come in 2022 and will save the airport from being sold, they also said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the Noida International Airport in Gautam Buddha Nagar today.
The development of the first phase of the airport is being done at a cost of over ₹ 10,050 crore.
The Noida International Airport is spread over more than 1300 hectares of land. The completed first phase of the airport will have a capacity to serve around 1.2 crore passengers a year and the work on it is scheduled to be completed by 2024.
(With agency inputs)