Cost Rs 15,000 cr, couldn't take 5 days of rain: Varun Gandhi on Bundelkhand expressway

BJP MP Varun Gandhi has joined the chorus of voices criticising the construction of the Bundelkhand expressway after a short stretch of it developed potholes in heavy rains.

"If the expressway built at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore cannot take even five days of rain, then serious questions rise on its quality," Varun Gandhi posted to Twitter on Thursday night, along with a video of the damaged stretch.

Gandhi in his tweet in Hindi also called for the head of the project, the engineer concerned and the companies responsible to be summoned and acted against.


The 296-km-long Bundelkhand expressway - connecting Gonda village on NH-35 in Chitrakoot district with Kudrail village on Agra–Lucknow Expressway in Etawah district - was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 16.

A portion of the road developed one-and-a-half-foot-deep potholes due to rains at Chhiriya Salempur in Jalaun district on Wednesday night, but officials said they were immediately repaired and the road opened to traffic.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav accused corruption in the project, while the UP congress said the state government failed in its promise to give pothole-free roads.

Varun Gandhi, who represents Pilibhit in the Lok Sabha, has often raised questions over various issues in the recent past against governments led by his own party.